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A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and knowledge. From this extraordinary journey arose an unlikely love between one scientist and a beautiful Peruvian noblewoman. Victims of a tangled web of international politics, Jean Godin and Isabel Grameson s destiny would ultimately unfold in the Amazon s unforgiving jungles, and it would be Isabel s quest to reunite with Jean after a calamitous twenty-year separation that would capture the imagination of all of eighteenth-century Europe. A remarkable testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and enduring love, Isabel Grameson s survival remains unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration.

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In the brilliant tradition of Dava Sobel' s Longitude and Ken Alder' s The Measure of All Things, Robert Whitaker' s book places the scientific discovery of terrestrial distances within a gripping human drama, where science, society, and the human heart are intertwined. <br>- Alan Lightman, author of Einstein' s Dreams <br> A rare story, taut with intellectual controversy, romantic passion, and harrowing danger. <br>- Booklis t (starred review)

In the brilliant tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude and Ken Alder's The Measure of All Things , Robert Whitaker's book places the scientific discovery of terrestrial distances within a gripping human drama, where science, society, and the human heart are intertwined. <br>-Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams <br><br> A rare story, taut with intellectual controversy, romantic passion, and harrowing danger. <br>- Booklis t (starred review)

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Robert Whitaker is a science journalist and the author of Mad In America. He has won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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