The mapmaker's wife
Subtitle: a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon
By: Robert Whitaker.
Edition: Delta trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
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.
Table of contents: value: A Sunday in 1769; value: Not quite round; value: A daughter of Peru; value: The mapmakers; value: Voyage to Quito; value: Measuring the baseline; value: High-altitude science; value: Death in the afternoon; value: Marriage in Quito; value: Down the Amazon; value: A continent apart; value: Lost on the Bobonaza; value: Into the jungle; value: Deliverance; value: Saint Amand.