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The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitaker, Bob
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2004]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, > 1728?- > Travel > Amazon River Region.
Godin des Odonais, Jean, > 1712-1792.
Mission géodésique (France)
Scientific expeditions > Ecuador > History > 18th century.
Amazon River Region > Description and travel.
Ecuador > Biography.
France > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • A Sunday in 1769
  • Not quite round
  • A daughter of Peru
  • The mapmakers
  • Voyage to Quito
  • Measuring the baseline
  • High-altitude science
  • Death in the afternoon
  • Marriage in Quito
  • Down the Amazon
  • A continent apart
  • Lost on the Bobonaza
  • Into the jungle
  • Deliverance
  • Saint Amand.