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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"Rightly hailed as "one of the most stupendous works in the history of science," it was also one of the most perilous. Through hill and jungle, flood and fever, an intrepid band of surveyors carried the Arc from the southern tip of the Indian subc...

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