Whitaker, Robert.
The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker. - Delta trade pbk. ed. - New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2005. - xiv, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
0385337205
2004276621
Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, 1728?- --Travel--Amazon River Region.
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792.
Mission géodésique (France)
Scientific expeditions--History--Ecuador--18th century.
Amazon River Region--Description and travel.
Ecuador--Biography.
France--Biography.
ისტორია
F2546 / .W46 2005
981/.1032/092 B
94 / W-63
The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker. - Delta trade pbk. ed. - New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2005. - xiv, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
0385337205
2004276621
Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, 1728?- --Travel--Amazon River Region.
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792.
Mission géodésique (France)
Scientific expeditions--History--Ecuador--18th century.
Amazon River Region--Description and travel.
Ecuador--Biography.
France--Biography.
ისტორია
F2546 / .W46 2005
981/.1032/092 B
94 / W-63