Chasing the Sun
The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life
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. Drawing on more than seven years of research, he reports from locations in eighteen different countries. As he soon discovers, the Sun is present everywhere-in mythology, language, religion, politics, sciences, art, literature, and medicine, even in the ocean's depths. For some ancient worshippers, our star was a man abandoned by his spouse because his brightness made her weary. The early Christians appropriated the Sun's imagery, with the cross becoming an emblem of the st…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58836-934-5
- EAN: 9781588369345
- Produktnummer: 15715614
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 23'355 KB
- Abbildungen: 137 B&W IMAGES THROUGHOUT; 2 8-PP COLOR PHOTO INSERTS
Über den Autor
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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