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Title The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker.
Author Whitaker, Robert.
Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, 2004.
Book Cover
Copies/Volumes
Edition 1st ed.
Description 352 p. cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, b. 1728? -- Travel -- Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region -- Description and travel.
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792.
Mission géodésique (France)
Scientific expeditions -- Ecuador -- History -- 18th century.
Ecuador -- Biography.
France -- Biography.
ISBN 0738208086 : $25.00