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

Whitaker, Robert

ISBN 10: 0385337205 / ISBN 13: 9780385337205

Published by Delta, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
• Publisher: Delta
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385337205
• ISBN 13: 9780385337205
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 Gramesón’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 eighteenth-century Europe. A remarkable testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and enduring love, Isabel Gramesón’s survival remains unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration.

About the Author

Robert Whitaker is a science journalist and the author of Mad In America. He has won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.