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Автор: Crane, Nick
Название: Latitude
ISBN: 9780241478349
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Атласы / карты мира

История: теория и методы

Исторические карты и атласы

Туристические карты и атласы

ISBN-10: 0241478340
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.40 кг.
Дата издания: 27.05.2021
Размер: 222 x 138 x 25
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, World Atlases / World Maps, Historical Maps & Atlases, Travel Maps & Atlases, History: Theory & Methods, North Atlantic
Подзаголовок: The true story of the world`s very first international scientific expedition
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The year is 1735. Twelve unruly men board ships bound for South America. Their mission? To discover the true shape of the earth.

They will be exposed to a wilderness of dangers none can imagine. The survivors wont return for ten years. An almost forgotten moment in history, a story for our times, this is the true story of the mission to discover the shape of the earth.

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They knew the world wasnt a sphere. Either it stretched at the poles or it bulged at the equator. But which? They needed to know because accurate maps saved lives at sea and made money on land.

But measuring the earth was so difficult that most thought it impossible. The worlds first international team of scientists was sent to a continent of unmapped rainforests and ice-shrouded volcanoes where they attempted to measure the length on the ground of one degree of latitude. Beset by egos and disease, storms and earthquakes, mutiny and murder, they struggled for ten years to reach the single figure they sought.

Latitude is an epic story of survival and science set in mountain camps and remote observatories. It is also a story of exploration in which an unruly gaggle of misfits made breakthroughs in rubber and platinum, gravity and fogbows, quinine and Inca archaeology. A breathtaking tale of courage in adversity, it is celebrated today as the first modern exploring expedition.

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