Book ID: CBB000470019

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon (2004)

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Whitaker, Robert (Author)


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Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: xiv + 352 pp.; ill.; bib.; index
Language: English

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Emanuele Coco
Goldstein, Jurgen
Melcher, Lillian
Zug, James
Wulf, Andrea
Walker, Charles F.
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Biographies
Scientific expeditions
Natural history
Spain, colonies
Naturalists
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
Renaissance
Enlightenment
17th century
Places
South America
Spain
Central America
Germany
Guyana; British Guiana
Arctic regions
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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