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The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker ; [maps drawn by Ingrid Aue].

By: Whitaker, Robert.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Basic Books, c2004Edition: 1st ed.Description: xiv, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0738208086.Subject(s): Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, b. 1728? -- Travel -- Amazon River Region | Amazon River Region -- Description and travel | Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792 | Mission géodésique (France) | Scientific expeditions -- Ecuador -- History -- 18th century | Ecuador -- Biography | France -- Biography | Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, b. 1728? -- Travel | Amazon River Region -- Description and travel | Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792 | Mission géodésique (France) | Scientific expeditions -- History | Ecuador -- Biography | France -- BiographyDDC classification: 981/.1032/092 | 981/.1032/092 | B
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.

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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.

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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