Name: The Mapmaker's Wife
ISBN: 9780385337205

Robert Whitaker

When a tangled web of international politics in the eighteenth century leaves Isabel Grameson and her husband Jean Godin stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon River, Isabel makes a treacherous solo journey to reunite with her husband after twenty years of separation. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

The Mapmaker's Wife

Sarah Sammis

I love books about cartography but this one was supposedly about a woman's trip across South America because her cartographer husband was being reassigned. That bit is there but there is also a lot of other loosely associated history about South American, cartography and other stuff. In other words, it lacks focus.

Janet Doré

I was quite disappointed with the title...only a few chapters of this book were about the wife! Most were a pretty dry non-fiction account of the men on this excursion.

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

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