Chasing the Sun
November 08, 2010 Monday AT 3PM CT

 
 
No, he's not a surfer. From the man who wrote a worldwide history of swordplay, comes an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target - the sun. Scholar-adventurer Richard Cohen traveled to twenty countries, from Mount Fuji to Antarctica to interpret what the sun has meant throughout the ages.

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  • Richard Cohen is Visiting Professor of creative writing at the University of Kingston-upon-Thames and the author of Chasing the Sun.
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