The most enjoyable millennium book you'll read. Inspired by her long fascination with the 17th century Italian physicist, Galileo, Sobel brings the relationship between Galileo and his eldest daughter to life. The large audience that drove Longitude and The Perfect Storm high on the national bestseller lists will welcome this superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on a late summer day in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 people dead. From the author of the national bestseller Fermat's Enigma , this book gives a compelling tour through the cloaked world of codes and code breaking throughout history. A fast, furious and funny look at how men have sought a closer, easier shave without skinning themselves alive.
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