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- 出版时间：2010-11
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内容简介：
In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimed
author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our
relationship with the star that gives us life. Whether floating in
a skiff on the Ganges as the Sun descends behind the funeral pyres
of Varanasi, interviewing psychologists in the Norwegian Arctic
about the effects of darkness, or watching tomato seedlings in
southern Spain being hair-brushed (the better to catch the Sun’s
rays), Cohen tirelessly pursues his quarry.
Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports from
locations in eighteen different countries, including the
Novolazarevskaya science station in Antarctica (the coldest place
on Earth); the Arizona desert (the sunniest); the Pope’s
observatory-cum-fortress outside Rome (possible the least
accessible); and the crest of Mount Fuji, where—entirely alone—he
welcomes the sunrise on the longest day of the year.
As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere—in mythology,
language, religion, sciences, art, literature, and medicine; in the
ocean depths; even atop the Statue of Liberty. Ancient worshippers
believed our star was a man with three eyes and four arms,
abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The
early Christians appropriated the halo from sun imagery and saw the
cross as an emblem of the Sun and its rays. Galileo was the first
to espy blemishes on the solar surface—sunspots—but hid his
discoveries for fear of persecution. Einstein helped duplicate the
source of the Sun’s power to create the atomic bomb; while the “Sun
King” Louis XIV, Chairman Mao, Adolf Hitler, and the Japanese
emperors all co-opted the Sun to enlarge their authority. Conan
Doyle had Sherlock Holmes declare that even thinking about the
solar system took up too much space in his brain, while Richard
Wagner had Tristan inveigh against daylight as the enemy of
romantic love.
Packed with interesting figures (the Sun is responsible for 44
percent of the world’s tidal energy, and when aligned with the
Moon, as at high tide, makes us all minutely taller); extraordinary
myths (in India, just a few years ago, pregnant women were still
being kept indoors during an eclipse, for fear their babies would
be born blind or with cleft palates); and surprising anecdotes
(during the Vietnam War, a large number of mines dropped into
Haiphong harbor blew up simultaneously in response to a large solar
flare), this splendidly illustrated volume is erudite, informative,
and supremely entertaining. It not only explains the star that so
inspires us, but shows how complex our relations with it have
been—and continue to be.
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作者介绍：
Richard Cohen is the former publishing director
of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton and the founder of Richard
Cohen Books. The acclaimed author of By the Sword: A History of
Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic
Champions, he has written for The New York Times and most
leading London newspapers, and has appeared on BBC radio and
television. He lives in New York City.
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“Chasing the Sun is both a grand history of civilization
and an irresistible account of an around-the-world odyssey in
search of an elusive moving target. Richard Cohen collects
fascinating stories with the exuberance and erudition of a
Victorian explorer filling a curio cabinet with rare specimens.
This is an amazing tour de force.”—Sylvia Nasar, author of A
Beautiful Mind
“Chasing the Sun is quite an extraordinary book, which I
absolutely loved. I found it impossible to read in a few sittings,
but sort of sat around regularly sunbathing in its information
afterglow. It’s a dazzling solar encyclopedia but also a fabulously
provoking history of discoveries, dreams, and delusions. I shall
bask in its shimmering digressions, crazy cross-references, and
dizzy overviews for many moons.”—Richard Holmes, author of The
Age of Wonder
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