Shooting the sun / Max Byrd.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Byrd, Max.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871--Fiction.
• Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.
• Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
• Eccentrics and eccentricities.
• Solar eclipses.
• British.
• British--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
• Solar eclipses--Fiction.
• Mathematicians--Fiction.
• Mathematicians.
• Photographers--Fiction.
• Photographers.
• Western stories.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Biographical fiction.
• Western stories.

Physical Description:

306 pages : map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bantam Books, [2004]

Summary:

From historic novelist Byrd comes an enthralling novel of fact and fiction as eccentric genius Charles Babbage and free-spirited astronomer Selena Cott set out to use the dawning technology of 1839 to record a total solar eclipse.

ISBN:

0553802089

OCLC:

52381541