Title: The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0060195185
ISBN 13: 9780060195182
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new

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The dramatic tale of the "great arc"--the measure of the meridian, or longitudinal arc--follows the scientists and surveyers as they trudged through jungles and tundra alike beginning in 1802 to mark this important line on the globe. 25,000 first printing.

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John Keay is the author of four acclaimed histories: The Honourable Company, about teh East India Company; Last Post, about imperical disengagement in the Far East; the two-volume Explorers of the Western Himalayas; and most recently, India: A History. His other books include India Discovered and Into India. John Keay is married with four children, lives in Scotland and is co-editor with Julia Keay of the Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland.

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