Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
by Wulf, Andrea
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0307744604
- ISBN 13
- 9780307744609
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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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- Title
- Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
- Author
- Wulf, Andrea
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0307744604
- ISBN 13
- 9780307744609
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
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