The mapmaker's wife
Subtitle: a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon
By: Robert Whitaker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, b. 1728? -- Travel -- Amazon River Region; Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1712-1792; Mission géodésique (France); Scientific expeditions -- Ecuador -- History -- 18th century; Amazon River Region -- Description and travel; Ecuador -- Biography; France -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Sunday in 1769; title: Not quite round; title: A daughter of Peru; title: The mapmakers; title: Voyage to Quito; title: Measuring the baseline; title: High-altitude science; title: Death in the afternoon; title: Marriage in Quito; title: Down the Amazon; title: A continent apart; title: Lost on the Bobonaza; title: Into the jungle; title: Deliverance; title: Saint Amand.