July 15, 2011

Books

Wide Orbit

Chasing the SunThe Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us LifeRichard CohenRandom House, $20, 608 pp.

Paul O’Donnell

No book worth its salt, it has been said, should be read front to back, but rather by plunging in wherever chance and interest lead. Who said this escapes me, but I’d lay odds that if I go back through Richard Cohen’s Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life, I’d run across the answer. Stuffed full of more information than the brain is intended to re (...)


 

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