
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
Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index