SHOOTING THE SUN.
by Byrd, Max
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0553802089
- ISBN 13
- 9780553802085
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Bantam,, (2003.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Historical novel based on an event in the life of Charles Babbage - "an English genius of legendary eccentricity. He invented the cowcatcher, the ophthalmoscope, and the 'penny post' . . . And all his life he was in desperate need of enormous sums of money to build his fabled reasoning machine, the Difference Engine, the first digital computer in history. To publicize his Engine, Babbage sponsors a private astronomical expedition - a party of four men and one remarkable woman - who will set out from Washington City and travel by wagon train two thousand miles west, beyond the last known outposts of civilization. Their ostensible purpose is to observe a total eclipse of the sun predicted by Babbage's computer, and to photograph it with the newly invented camera of Louis Daguerre." INSCRIBED by the author on the title page "For . .. . Greetings from the old Santa Fe Trail. All best wishes." 305 pp.
Synopsis
Max Byrd is the author of the bestselling historical novels Jefferson, Jackson , and Grant . He makes his home in Davis, California. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- SHOOTING THE SUN.
- Author
- Byrd, Max
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0553802089
- ISBN 13
- 9780553802085
- Publisher
- Bantam,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2003.)
- Keywords
- charles babbage, santa fe trail,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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