The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
By Robert Whitaker.
Description
A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the AmazonThe year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and knowledge. From this extraordinary journey arose an unlikely love between one scientist and a beautiful Peruvian noblewoman. Victims of a tangled web of international politics, Jean Godin and Isabel Gramesón’s destiny would ultimately unfold in the Amazon’s unforgiving jungles, ...
ISBN(s)
0385337205, 9780385337205
