Chasing Venus
by Wulf, Andrea
ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of The Brother Gardeners, long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and winner of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award, and of Founding Gardeners; she is the coauthor (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. She has written for The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, and she reviews for several newspapers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Times Literary Supplement.
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American Edition [stated], presumed First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Saskia Manners (Author photograph). xxvi, 304, [4] pages. Author's Note. Dramatis Personae. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. List of Observers 1761. List of Observers 1769. Selected Bibliography, Sources, and Abbreviations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and a scuff. Andrea Wulf (born 1972)… Read more about this item Item Price
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