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9780060195182

The Great Arc

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  • ISBN13:

    9780060195182

  • ISBN10:

    0060195185

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-08-03
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
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Summary

Chronicles the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, a venture initiated by British army officer William Lambton to measure the earth's surface, and discusses its completion under Lambton's successor, George Everest.

Author Biography

John Keay, the author of four acclaimed histories, The Honourable Company, Last Post, the two-volume Explorers of the Western Himalayas, and India: A History, lives in Scotland and is coeditor, with Julia Keay, of the Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
List of Maps
xii
A Note on Spellings xiii
Foreword xvii
A Baptism of Fever
1(15)
The Elusive Lambton
16(17)
Tall Tales from the Hills
33(18)
Droog Dependent
51(15)
The Far-Famed Geodesist
66(14)
Everywhere in Chains
80(12)
Crossing the Rubicon
92(19)
So Far as Our Knowledge Extends
111(16)
Through the Haze of Hindustan
127(13)
Et in Arcadia
140(18)
A Stupendous Snowy Mass
158(15)
A Note on Sources 173(4)
Index 177

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