The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker.
In 1735, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the circumference of the earth and reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and knowledge. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, braving jaguars, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission. But these adventures were only the beginning. In the course of the expedition, an unlikely love arose between one of its members and a beautiful Peruvian noblewoman. Victims of a tangled web of international politics, Jean Godin and Isabel Grameson were left stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon. Isabel's solo journey to reunite with Jean after a twenty-year separation was so dramatic that it caputured the imagination of eighteenth-century Europe, Drawing on the original writings of the French mapmakers, as well as his own experience retracing Isabel's journey, awar-winning writer Robert Whitaker weaves a reveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, enduring love, and scientific achievement.--
Record details
- ISBN: 0465057942
- ISBN: 0738208086
- ISBN: 9780465057948
- ISBN: 9780738208084
- Physical Description: 352 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2004.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.4 17 81084.
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Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, 1728?- > Travel > Amazon River Region.
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1713-1792.
Mission géodésique (France)
Scientific expeditions > Ecuador > History > 18th century.
Amazon River Region > Description and travel.
Ecuador > Biography.
France > Biography. - Genre:
- Biographies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 981.1032 WHI (Text) | 37810434214366 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
