Basic Books, Inc., 2004. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Basic Books, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing, with full number line on copyright page. Very clean gray boards with clean red-orange spine, silver lettering on spine. Hint of slightest surface wear to spine base, faint remainder mark on bottom page edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages are clean and bright; clean green endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 352 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. A true sweeping tale of adventure, discovery and exploration is one woman's extraordinary journey, inspired by her love for a man she had not seen in 20 years. In 1769, Isabel Grameson, an upper-class Peruvian woman who had lived all her life close to home, set out across the Andes and down the length of the Amazon in order to rejoin her husband in French Guiana. 8vo. Adventure..

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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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Bookseller: Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 016369
Title: The Mapmaker's Wife
Author: Whitaker, Robert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
ISBN 10: 0738208086
ISBN 13: 9780738208084
Publisher: Basic Books, Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2004
Keywords: AMAZON RIVER_BIOGRAPHY ADVENTURE ISABEL GRAMESON
Bookseller catalogs: Adventure/Travel; South America;

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