Mapmaker's Wife A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

"[T]he first half of the narrative actually describes the motivations and group dynamics of an 18th-century french scientific expedition surveying in the high Andes....Thus far the book serves as a clear, competent history of an expedition; the second half, though, more resembles a novel....[E]ach element of THE MAPMAKER'S WIFE offers its own distinctive pleasures."Whitaker, Robert is the author of 'Mapmaker's Wife A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon', published 2004 under ISBN 9780385337205 and ISBN 0385337205.