The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker.
2005
F2546 .W46 2005 (Mapit)
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The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker.
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Edition
Delta trade pbk. ed.
ISBN
0385337205 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2005.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Item Number
9780385337205
Call Number
F2546 .W46 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
981/.1032/092 B
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Table of 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.
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.