Price: $5.99 USD. 24560 words. Published on May 26, 2012. Nonfiction.
(4.25 from 4 reviews) Venus in Sole Visa traces man's 4,000 year quest to determine the distance between the earth and the sun. Beginning with the first empires of Mesopotamia and ending with the first NASA probe landings on Mars, award winning journalist Ken Shulman charts man's dogged attempt to measure the heavens above him.