Nicholas Crane

Latitude

The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition

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Produktbeschreibung

"Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator"]cProvided by publisher

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pegasus Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 146mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781643137957
• ISBN-10: 1643137956
• Artikelnr.: 61196405

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Crane  is an award-winning writer, journalist, geographer and explorer who has presented BAFTA winning, BBC TV series Coast.  He writes for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Sunday Times. Nicholas has travelled extensively in Tibet, China, Afghanistan, Africa, and he identified and visited for the first time the geographical Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the globe most distant from the open sea, in the Gobi Desert.

Rezensionen

This wonderfully readable and rollicking story of adventure and scientific exploration is as gripping as any novel. Full of big ideas and even bigger personalities, it's a book that sparkles with intelligence and wit Alex Preston, author and journalist