Enduring love; Exploration in South America.(The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon)(Book Review)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 15, 2004 | Copyright information

Lima long ago

THE French expedition that left for South America in 1735, led by Voltaire's friend Charles-Marie de la Condamine, was supposed to resolve the old debate over whether the earth was shaped like an onion or like a fat man wearing a tightly-cinched belt. In the end, the onion triumphed. But the expedition also produced the earliest complete maps of the northern part of the continent, and it introduced to Europe a grey-white metal that the South Americans called platinum and a liquid latex that could be moulded and shaped and was useful in protecting against rain ...

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