Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The mapmaker's wife

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57373846

Responsibility statement

Robert Whitaker

Sub title

a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon

Summary

Tells the story of Isabel Grameson, an upper-class Peruvian woman who in 1741 married Jean Godin, a member of a team of French mapmakers exploring South America, focusing on her three-thousand-mile trek down the length of the Amazon to reach her husband after they were separated on opposite sides of the continent--victims of international politics

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

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