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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.

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