$35 THE GREAT ARC - The dramatic tale of how india was mapped and Everest was named , John Keay, 182 page softbound, as new, B&W plates, maps

THE GREAT ARC - The dramatic tale of how india was mapped and Everest was named , John Keay, 182 page softbound, as new, B&W plates, maps - The great Indian arc of Meridian, begun in 1800, was the longest measurement of the earth;s surface ever to have been attempted. its 1600 miles of inch-perfect survey took nearly 50 years, cost more lives than most contemporary wars and involved equations more complex than any in the pre-computer age - completed by George Everest - some instruments weighed half a ton, observations completed from flimsy towers some 90 feet off the ground....malaria wiped out whole survey parties...and tigers and scorpions took their toll. And, they found/measured Everest on the way...terrific as are all John Keay's books $35

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THE GREAT ARC - The dramatic tale of how india was mapped and Everest was named , John Keay, 182 page softbound, as new, B&W plates, maps - The great Indian arc of Meridian, begun in 1800, was the longest measurement of the earth;s surface ever to have been attempted. its 1600 miles of inch-perfect survey took nearly 50 years, cost more lives than most contemporary wars and involved equations more complex than any in the pre-computer age - completed by George Everest - some instruments weighed half a ton, observations completed from flimsy towers some 90 feet off the ground....malaria wiped out whole survey parties...and tigers and scorpions took their toll. And, they found/measured Everest on the way...terrific as are all John Keay's books $35