The Transit of Venus

  • The Transit of Venus
    The Transit of Venus
    By Shirley Hazzard

    With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life.

  • The Transit of Venus
    The Transit of Venus
    By Shirley Hazzard

    " - The Paris Review Finalist for the National Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters ...

  • The Transit Of Venus
    The Transit Of Venus
    By Shirley Hazzard

    Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she...

  • The Transit of Venus
    By Shirley Hazzard

    The Transit of Venus

  • The Transit of Venus
    The Transit of Venus
    By Susan Firer

    In Firer's poems, place, often the western shore of Lake Michigan, provides an imagistic and sonic landscape in which language explores the 'empire of skin' with its daily happinesses and sorrows, gifts and losses.

  • The Transit of Venus: The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun
    The Transit of Venus: The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun
    By David Sellers

    The Transit of Venus: The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun

  • The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy
    The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy
    By Peter Aughton

    New biography of the great British astronomer, Jeremiah Horrocks, who led the way for other greats like Newton or Halley.