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The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon
Title:
The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon
ISBN:
9780738208084
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, c2004.
Physical Description:
xiv, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
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