The Mapmaker's Wife A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
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The Mapmaker's Wife A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker | 7.24 MB
English | 353 Pages
Title: The Mapmaker's Wife
Author: Robert Whitaker
Year: 2004
Description:
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 Gramesón, 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...
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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 Gramesón, 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...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/d08fee3fbf026b44a75c21d0bff0408a/The_Mapmakers_Wife__A_True_Tale_Of_Love_Murder_And_Survival_In_The_Amazon_by_Robert_Whitaker_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/608f812c9ad16/The_Mapmakers_Wife__A_True_Tale_Of_Love_Murder_And_Survival_In_The_Amazon_by_Robert_Whitaker_.rar
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