The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert Whitaker
The Mapmaker's Wife

Robert Whitaker

The Mapmaker's Wife

Robert Whitaker

352 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous slow-paced
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In the first part of the 18th century, the French National Academy of Sciences sent a group of distinguished scientists on a daring, decade-long expedition into the heart of South America in a bid to win the race to measure the Earth. Like Lewis a...

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