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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
Robert Whitaker
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| #5126664 in Books | 2005-05-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x1.18 x5.04l,.77 | File type: PDF | 448 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| This is a fascinating true story of adventure and science ...|By Quantum libet|This is a fascinating true story of adventure and science in what is now Ecuador during the 1730s. The scientific part involves the expedition of members of the Académie française to measure a meridian arc at the equator and to compare its measurement with one measured in "Lapland." The|From Publishers Weekly|As was customary for girls from elite families in 18th-century colonial Peru, Isabel Gramesón was barely a teenager when she married Jean Godin, a Frenchman visiting the territory as an assistant on a scientific expedition. Planning
In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth. Scaling the Andes and journeying along the Amazon, the mapmakers faced all manner of danger, while madness, disease and violent death each took their toll. However one, Jean Godin, fell in love with a local girl called Isabel Grameson. When the time came for the expedi...
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