$40.06
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2016
Summary
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 incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely compl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465057948 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465057942 |
| Author: | Robert Whitaker |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | First Trade Paper Edition |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2016 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 142mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Robert Whitaker
Robert Whitaker is the award-winning author of four books, including Anatomy of an Epidemic, which won the Investigative Reporters and Editors 2010 award for best investigative journalism, On the Laps of Gods, and Mad in America. His newspaper and magazine articles on the mentally ill and the pharmaceutical industry have garnered several national awards, including a George Polk Award for medical writing and a National Association of Science Writers Award for best magazine article. A series he co-wrote for the Boston Globe on the abuse of mental patients in research settings was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
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