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"This is an inspirational tale: how a teacher and an eclipse inspired the author, aged eight, to a life in science, and a love affair with eclipses that takes him to a war zone in the Western Sahara, to the South Pacific, and the African bush. The tale comes full circle with another eight-year-old boy--the author's grandson--at the 2017 great American eclipse."--Dust jacket.

Explores the development of theories regarding the existence of the neutrino and discusses how this particle was finally detected and proven to exist. Reveals what neutrinos have told us about the universe at large.