Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition

by Nicholas Crane

Book Overview

Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643137956
• ISBN13: 9781643137957
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"