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

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In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South The united states in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the American West, their unbelievable mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission. One was once murdered, every other perished from fever, and a third-Jean Godin-nearly died of heartbreak. On the expedition’s end, Jean and his Peruvian wife, Isabel Gramesón, became stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon, sufferers of a tangled internet of international politics. Isabel’s solo journey to reunite with Jean after their calamitous twenty-year separation was once so dramatic that it left all of 18th-century Europe spellbound. Her survival-unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration-was once a testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and the power of devotion.Drawing at the original writings of the French mapmakers, in addition to his own experience retracing Isabel’s journey, acclaimed author Robert Whitaker weaves a riveting tale wealthy in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement. Never before told, The Mapmaker’s Wife is an epic love story that unfolds against the backdrop of “the greatest expedition the world has ever known.”
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