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The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon  Cover Image Book Book

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

Whitaker, Robert. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0738208086
  • ISBN: 0385337205 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0738208086 :
  • ISBN: 9780738208084 :
  • ISBN: 9780738208084
  • ISBN: 9780465057948 ((pbk 2016)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, b. 1728? > Travel > Amazon River Region.
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792.
Mission géodésique (France)
Mission geodesique (France)
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792.
France > Biography.
Scientific expeditions > Ecuador > History > 18th century.
Ecuador > Biography.
Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, b. 1728? > Travel > Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region > Description and travel.
Ecuador > History.
France > History.

Available copies

  • 11 of 12 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.

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