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Crane, Nicholas

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.85 CRA

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