From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grie...
The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now 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. ...
From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before.“Illuminating and engrossing.... The reader relives the first decades of the Republic ... through the words of the s...