Key Features
* Short, eloquent, popular science narrative history appealing to readers of
Longitude, Fermat's Last Theorem and The Arcanum
* Will do for cartography what Longitude did for navigation
* By one of the best writers on India: John Keay is the author of India: A
History, published by HarperCollins.
About the Book: The Great Arc
The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named
A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken
in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas
and the mapping