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352 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780738208084
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books, New York.
Publication date: 13 April 2004
Description
In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their in...
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352 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780738208084
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books, New York.
Publication date: 13 April 2004
Description
In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their in...