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

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

John Keay

182 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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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.

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