The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon (Paperback)

from skf

Although the title is about Isabel Gramesón de Godín and her daring attempt to be the first woman to go through the unexplored Amazon basin to reach her husband whom she hadn't seen nor heard from in 20 years, there is much more to this book. Robert Whitaker explains the purpose of the 18th centu...

from nandadevi

This has already been fairly well reviewed by others, save two observations. Firstly the science is done very well indeed, but this is no primer in geodesy and astronomy. That's to say if you aren't already at ease with arc seconds you'll likely find yourself a little at sea. Secondly it has to b...

from

This book is a combination of so many things - the tale of a scientific expedition, an adventure story, a history of colonialism in South America, an unlikely survival tale - that it's hard to classify it or understand how the author fit so much information in so few pages. It also made me think ...

from bcquinnsmom

The Mapmaker's Wife is a history of scientific exploration, as well as a story of one woman's survival through the Amazon rainforest; the best parts of this book were the descriptions of Isabel Grameson-Godin's journey alone through the Amazon. I was really drawn to this section of the book; sadl...

from cat-ballou

More than love, murder, or survival put together, this was a book about science and exploration. I mean, ok and all, sure. It was done in the same tradition as Dava Sobel's books, and there were a lot of parallels (no pun intended, ha!) between this book and Longitude. But, seriously, don't tell ...