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The Mapmaker's Wife

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Mapmaker's Wife

By Robert Whitaker

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About the book

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed...Show more

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ISBN

9780465057948

Publisher

INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Mapmaker's Wife

Format

Paperback

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