num_pages: 353
description: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the AmazonThe year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and knowledge. From this extraordinary journey arose an unlikely love between one scientist and a beautiful Peruvian noblewoman. Victims of a tangled web of international politics, Jean Godin and Isabel Gramesón’s destiny would ultimately unfold in the Amazon’s unforgiving jungles, and it would be Isabel’s quest to reunite with Jean after a calamitous twenty-year separation that would capture the imagination of all of eighteenth-century Europe. A remarkable testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and enduring love, Isabel Gramesón’s survival remains unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration.
language: English
title: The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
titlecomplete: The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
genres: Historical, History, Adventure, Science, Adult, Biography Memoir, Travel, Amazon, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1669
publisher: Delta