A work like this would not be possible without the advice, assistance, and contributions of many experts across many fields. For their generous support and effort I’d like to thank Amy Sayle at Morehead Planetarium, who read every word of this book two or three times; Ed Krupp at Griffith Observatory; psychologist and coronaphile Kate Russo; eclipse-chaser and photographer Alan Dyer; Barbara Cohen at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; archeoastronomer Kim Malville; Eanna Flanagan at Cornell University; Devon Belcher at Oglethorpe University; Craig DeForest at Southwest Research Institute; and William Abernathy in San Francisco. For photographs, maps, and invaluable assistance I’d like to thank eclipse photographer Geoff Sims; filmmaker David Makepeace; Angela Speck at the University of Missouri; Doug Duncan at the Fiske Planetarium; Paul B. Jones and the Staunton River Star Party; Amy Barr at the Planetary Science Institute; Michael Zeiler, mapmaker extraordinaire at GreatAmericanEclipse.com; John Tilley for his worldwide eclipse location calculations; Fred Espenak, who is Mr. Eclipse; Jay Pasachoff and his invaluable comments; Lis Mortensen of the National Museum of the Faroe Islands; and my mom, Kareen Tierney, and Mike Tierney, who scouted out eclipse locations in eastern Oregon near their home in Condon. I’d also like to thank my crewmates on Star Flyer for the total eclipse of 2013 (my apologies to everyone I interviewed on board for this book—I lost my iPhone rafting the Grand Canyon before I could transcribe them); National Park Ranger Sonya Popelka, who suggested the book’s title; and Lua Gregory of the University of Redlands Library, without whom I would not have half my sources and images. Lastly, thank you to my publishers, TJ Kelleher and Quynh Do, who greatly improved the text and had confidence in the project; and my agent, Farley Chase, who suggested the idea for this book, and without whom it would not exist. Any errors in this work are through no fault of theirs. To my wife, Julie Rathbun, it is my greatest hope that in 2017 you will soon see what all the trouble was worth.