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"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - 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 whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard's novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.
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Excerpt from The Transit of Venus: Its Meaning and Use First of all, let me explain what the transit of Venus is. It is, in fact, the passing of the planet between the Earth and the Sun in such a way as that it will be actually seen from the Earth travelling across the Sun's face. Were Venus nearer the Earth, so as to appear as large as the Moon, the planet being in fact nearly three times as large in diameter as the Moon is, her transit across the Sun would cause an eclipse of the Sun. Being very much more distant from us, however, than the Moon is, and consequently appear ing very much smaller, the eclipse' is reduced to a transit, ' and, instead of covering the face of the Sun, the planet appears during the transit like a small round black spot. We all know that an eclipse of the Sun is caused by the Moon passing between the Sun and the Earth, they being all three in a line. In like manner, to cause a transit, the Sun, the planet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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In this unique and fascinating history of science, acclaimed popular science writer Sheehan and award-winning geographer Westfall take readers back through the centuries to chronicle the intrepid explorations of scientists and adventurers who studied the transits of Venus in the quest for scientific understanding. Maps & tables.
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