The Mapmaker's Wife
A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
Robert Whitaker(Author)
Perseus Books (Publisher)
Published on 13. April 2004
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-7382-0808-4 (ISBN)
Description
An adventure story and a love story set in the heart of the Amazonian jungle. In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission. One was murdered, another perished from fever, and a third-Jean Godin-nearly died of heartbreak. At the expedition's end, Jean and his Peruvian wife, Isabel Gramesn, became stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon, victims of a tangled web of international politics. Isabel's solo journey to reunite with Jean after their calamitous twenty-year separation was so dramatic that it left all of 18th-century Europe spellbound. Her survival-unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration-was a testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and the power of devotion.Drawing on the original writings o
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boulder
United States
Publishing group
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
662 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7382-0808-4 (9780738208084)
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