Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
by Wulf, Andrea
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0307700178
- ISBN 13
- 9780307700179
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
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
- The Book House in Dinkytown (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 312560
- Title
- Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
- Author
- Wulf, Andrea
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307700178
- ISBN 13
- 9780307700179
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny:
- Date Published
- 2012-05-01
- Size
- 6x1x9
- Keywords
- stre10
- X weight
- 24 oz
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