Searching for Isabel Godin
By: Celia Wakefield.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press; Brand: Chicago Review Pr; Chicago Review Pr
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, b. 1728? -- Travel -- Amazon River Region.; Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792.; Wakefield, Celia, 1916- -- Travel.; Mission géodésique (France); Scientific expeditions -- Ecuador -- History -- 18th century.; Amazon River Region -- Description and travel.; Ecuador -- Biography.; France -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Popular account of the Mission geodésique of 1735 and of Isabel Godin's 1769 trek from her native Riobamba to the mouth of the Amazon to rejoin her husband, whom she had not seen in 20 years. An enjoyable read, but marred by inadequate research"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes index.