The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named

by John Keay

2020-07-09 15:13:40

A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest.
A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest. Less

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File size5.08x7.87x0.47inches
Print pages226
PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
Publication date August 6, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780006531234
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John Keay is a writer, broadcaster and historian whose books include INTO INDIA, INDIA DISCOVERED, WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET, HIGHLAND DROVE, THE HONOURABLE COMPANY: A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH EAST IN...

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