The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins, New York, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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HarperCollins, New York, 2000. Hardcover, 208 pp. 1st American edition, 1st printing (full number line). Begun in the year 1800, the great Indian Arc of the Meridian was “the longest measurement of the earth's surface ever to have been attempted. Its 1,600 miles of inch-perfect survey took nearly fifty years”. Very good condition in a price-clipped dust jacket.
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- Title
- The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named
- Author
- John Keay
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, New York
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060195185
- ISBN 13
- 9780060195182
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 408.233 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.09 centimeters width by 13.97 centimeters height by 20.96 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- History, Places, Science
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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.
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