THE GREAT ARC. The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Name.

Keay, John.

ISBN 10: 0060195185 / ISBN 13: 9780060195182

Published by HarperCollins, New York NY 2000., 2000

About this Item

1st U.S. edition. 8vo. [xxv] + 182pp. B/w. illustrations, double page map. Original boards. Pictorial white d/w. with silver title patch to spine, rubbed to edges. With the signature of Ann Savours Shirley. ISBN 0060195185 US$12.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GREAT ARC. The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Name.
• Publisher: HarperCollins, New York NY 2000.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060195185
• ISBN 13: 9780060195182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • TRAVEL

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.