Bibliograph

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

Type

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The mapmaker's wife

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

53939230

Responsibility statement

Robert Whitaker

Sub title

a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon

Table Of 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

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