The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon

Robert Whitaker

ISBN 10: 0553815393 / ISBN 13: 9780553815399

Published by Bantam, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon
• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553815393
• ISBN 13: 9780553815399
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the Earth. Scaling the Andes and journeying along the Amazon, the mapmakers faced all manner of danger, while madness, disease and violent death each took their toll. However one, Jean Godin, fell in love with a local girl called Isabel Grameson. When the time came for the expedition to return to France, Godin travelled ahead to ensure the way was safe for his new family. But on reaching French Guiana, disaster struck: Spain and Portugal closed their borders and he was stranded, unable to return to Isabel. What followed lies at the core of this extraordinary tale - a heartbreaking 20-year separation that ended when Isabel, believing she might never see her husband again, decided to make her own way across the continent: a journey that began in hope but became hell on earth...
Drawing on his own experience retracing Isabel's epic trek as well as contemporary records, Robert Whitaker recounts a captivating true story of love and survival set against the backdrop of what many still regard as 'the greatest expedition the world has ever known'.

From the Inside Flap

Early 18th century: A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to prove 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 Grameson's destiny would ultimately unfold in the Amazon's unforgiving jungles, and it would be Isabel's quest to reunite with Jean after a calamitous twenty-year separation that would capture the imagination of all of Enlightenment Era Europe. A remarkable testament to human endurance, female resoursefulness and enduring love, Isabel Gremeson's survival remains unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration.