![]() ![]() Drawing on the original writings of the French mapmakers, as well as his own experience retracing Isabel's journey, acclaimed writer Robert Whitaker weaves a riveting tale rich in adventure, intrigue, and scientific achievement. Her survival-unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration-was a testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and the power of devotion. Isabel's solo journey to reunite with Jean after their calamitous twenty-year separation was so dramatic that it left all of eighteenth-century Europe spellbound. At the expedition's end, Jean and his Peruvian wife, Isabel Grames n, became stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon, victims of a tangled web of international politics. ![]() One was murdered, another perished from fever, and a third-Jean Godin-nearly died of heartbreak. ![]() ![]() Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission. Published by Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) (2005) ISBN 10: 0553815393 ISBN 13: 9780553815399. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. The Mapmakers Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon Paperback. In the early years of the eighteenth century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. ![]()
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