The Great ARC: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named by John Keay

The Great ARC: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named

John Keay

208 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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Rightly hailed as "one of the most stupendous works in the history of science, " it was also one of the most perilous. Through hill and jungle, flood and fever, an intrepid band of surveyors carried the Arc from the southern tip of the Indian subc...

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