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Whitaker, Robert.
The mapmaker's wife :
a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon /
Robert Whitaker.
1st ed.
New York :
Basic Books,
2004.
xiv, 352 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-337) and index.
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.
20101016.
Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison
b. 1728
Travel
Amazon River Region.
Godin des Odonais, Jean
1712-1792.
Mission gǒdšique (France.)
Scientific expeditions
Ecuador
History
18th century.
Amazon River Region
Description and travel.
Ecuador
Biography.
France
Biography.
https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026902.html
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