Chasing the Sun

“An amazing tour de force, a grand history, and an irresistable account of an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target.”–Sylvia Nasar, author of “A Beautiful Mind”

“A quite extraordinary book, which I absolutely loved. It’s 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”

“Remarkably comprehensive and engrossing … Apollo, Ra, Inti or Huitzilopochtli–all would rock with delight at Cohen’s sweeping endeavor.”–“Kirkus Reviews” (starred review)

“A firework of a book … sprinkled throughout with such glittery delights.”“–The Wall Street Journal”
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“On every single page there is something utterly fascinating.”–Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials

”[Full of] playfulness and jam-packed lyricism.“”–The Boston Globe”
Advance praise for “Chasing the Sun
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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”


“From the Hardcover edition.”
Advance praise for “Chasing the Sun
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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

Richard Cohen is the former publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton and the author of Chasing the Sun, By the Sword, and How To Write Like Tolstoy. Works he has edited have gone on to win the Pulitzer, Booker, and Whitbread/Costa prizes, and twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. For more than 35 years he has written, edited, and lectured on numerous subjects around the world, from talks on the Queen Mary 2 to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium. For seven years he was a visiting professor in creative writing at the University of Kingston-upon-Thames in London.

Among the authors he has edited are Madeleine Albright, Vanessa Redgrave, Sebastian Faulks, Studs Terkel, John Keegan, Richard Holmes, John le Carré, Jeffrey Archer, Sir Harold Evans, Tony Benn, Barbara Castle, William Trevor, Kingsley Amis, and Fay Weldon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

For two years he was program director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, and during his tenure it became the largest book festival in the world. Five times U.K. national saber champion, Cohen was selected for the British Olympic fencing team in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984 and has been four times world veteran champion. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, and most British quality newspapers.

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