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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Crane, Nicholas.     Subjects     Scientific expeditions -- Peru.     Geodesy -- Peru (Viceroyalty) -- History.     Discoveries in science.     Discoveries in geography.     Earth (Planet) -- Figure.     Peru -- Discovery and exploration.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Crane, Nicholas.       by title:      Latitude : the aston...       by call number:      526.10985 C891L     Search the Web     Crane, Nicholas.     Scientific expeditions -- Peru.     Geodesy -- Peru (Viceroyalty) -- History.     Discoveries in science.     Discoveries in geography.     Earth (Planet) -- Figure.     Peru -- Discovery and exploration.       MARC Display

Latitude : the astonishing adventure that shaped the world / Nicholas Crane. by Crane, Nicholas. Michael Joseph, 2021. Call #: 526.10985 C891L Subjects Scientific expeditions -- Peru.   Geodesy -- Peru (Viceroyalty) -- History.   Discoveries in science.   Discoveries in geography.   Earth (Planet) -- Figure.   Peru -- Discovery and exploration. ISBN:  9780241478349 (hc) Description:  256 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "An almost forgotten moment in history, a tale for our times, this is the true story of the mission to discover the shape of the Earth. They knew the world wasn't 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 world's 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."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 526.10985 C891L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 526.10985 C891L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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