Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
by Andrea Wulf
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307744604
- ISBN 13
- 9780307744609
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Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Endless Shores Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104895
- Title
- Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
- Author
- Andrea Wulf
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0307744604
- ISBN 13
- 9780307744609
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2013
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