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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…
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This book tells the true story of the deeply flawed men who nevertheless dared venture into the unknown so they could find out what the world looks like.
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