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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: how c ...Show more
Chasing Venus - The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
The author of the highly acclaimedFounding Gardenersnow gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: ...Show more
Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourfu ...Show more
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of unforgettable characters' SUNDAY TIMES'Magnificent Rebels is ...Show more
Magnificent Rebels - The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self (TP) by Andrea Wulf
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act for too long. Based in the small Ger ...Show more
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds.Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hun ...Show more
The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created an American Eden by Andrea Wulf
$19.95 AUD
Category: Gardening
A story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.
The Invention of Nature - The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourfu ...Show more
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--and in the process created modern environmentalism. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the ...Show more
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