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The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker.

By: Publication details: New York : Basic Books, c2004.Description: xiv, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780465057948
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 981/.1032/092 B 22
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.

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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