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Author Whitaker, Robert.

Title The mapmaker's wife : a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon / Robert Whitaker.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2004]
©2004
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  981.1032 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. GODIN DES ODONAIS, I.    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY GODIN DES ODONAIS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B GODIN DES ODONAIS, ISABELLE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B GODIN DES ODONAIS    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  981.1 WHI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  981.1032 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index.
Contents 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.4 17.0 81084.
Subject Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison, 1728?- -- Travel -- Amazon River Region.
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1713-1792.
Mission géodésique (France)
Scientific expeditions -- Ecuador -- History -- 18th century.
Amazon River Region -- Description and travel.
Ecuador -- Biography.
France -- Biography.
ISBN 0738208086
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