The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker.
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TextPublisher: New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2005Edition: Delta trade pbk. edDescription: xiv, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0385337205Subject(s): 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 | ისტორიაDDC classification: 981/.1032/092 | B LOC classification: F2546 | .W46 2005Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Sample text
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.
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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.
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