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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon

Robert Whitaker

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon

Robert Whitaker

447 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous slow-paced
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In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth. Scaling the Andes and journeying along th...

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