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The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest was Named memoirs enormous birdsand other once seeminglyAuthor: Keay, John Brand: HarperCollins Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 208 Release Date: 02 02 2012 Details: 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 of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest. The graphic story of the measurement of a meridian, or longitudinal, arc extending from the tip of