The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

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$16.10 - $26.66
UPC:
9780385337205
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2004-12-28
Release Date:
2004-12-28
Author:
Robert Whitaker
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint

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A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

The 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 Gramesns destiny would ultimately unfold in the Amazons unforgiving jungles, and it would be Isabels quest to reunite with Jean after a calamitous twenty-year separation that would capture the imagination of all of eighteenth-century Europe. A remarkable testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and enduring love, Isabel Gramesns survival remains unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration.

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