Contents

             Preface

     1     A Sunday in 1769

     2     Not Quite Round

     3     A Daughter of Peru

     4     The Mapmakers

     5     Voyage to Quito

     6     Measuring the Baseline

     7     High-Altitude Science

     8     Death in the Afternoon

     9     Marriage in Quito

   10     Down the Amazon

   11     A Continent Apart

   12     Lost on the Bobonaza

   13     Into the Jungle

   14     Deliverance

   15     Saint Amand

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Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index