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The Dramatic Tale Of How India Was Mapped And Everest Was Named (Text Only)

by John Keay
language: english
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, September of 2012 ‧
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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.

Great Arc

The Dramatic Tale Of How India Was Mapped And Everest Was Named (Text Only)

by John Keay

Property Description
ISBN: 9780007404520
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date: September of 2012
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Asia, Pacific and Oceania
EAN: 9780007404520
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John Keay

John Keay, jornalista e historiador, nasceu em 1941, em Inglaterra. É autor de uma vasta obra, na qual se destacam os relatos de viagens e os livros de carácter histórico, maioritariamente sobre a Índia e o Médio Oriente, a sua área de especialização. Mad about the Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South East Asia, Sowing the Wind: the Mismanagement of the Middle East 1900-1960 e Last Post: the End of Empire in the Far East são alguns dos seus livros mais recentes.
Juntamente com a mulher, a escritora Julia Keay, coordenou a Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland, estando agora a rever a London Encyclopaedia.
Keay vive na Escócia com a mulher e os quatro filhos.

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