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Chasing the Sun
Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives us Life | Richard Cohen
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The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUNis a cultural and scientific history of our relationship (…more)
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I have to go for a classic, Cranford is by far the best of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels imo. Great characters, humorous, all wrapped up in a genteel story of village life in 19th century England.

For a non fiction book, it would be the tagged, for sheer enormity of history and knowledge of our sun, beautifully told. #naturalitsy

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Cohen‘s extensive and exhaustive history of the sun — both in cultural and scientific senses — is clearly a labor of love. As someone fascinated by astronomy and Space, a lot of this was right up my alley. It‘s probably much longer than it needs to be, but it was still very interesting.