Jean Godin des Odonais

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Jean Godin des Odonais (born July 5, 1713 in Saint-Amand-Montrond, died March 1, 1792 in Paris) was a French cartographer and South America traveller. French astronomer Louis Godin was his cousin.

Jean Godin became first famous for taking part at the world's first geodesy expedition to the equator from 1735 to 1744 led by French geographer Charles Marie de La Condamine.

In 1741 he married the fourteen-year-old Isabel Grameson, the daughter of the Spanish governor in Peru, Don Pedro Grameson. She became famous by herself for being the only survivor of a search expedition for the lost Jean Godin undertaken by a party of 42 people 3000 miles across the Andes and the Amazon river.

Jean and Isabela Godin were the subject of several books about their famous romance like The Lost Lady of the Amazon: The Story of Isabela Godin and Her Epic Journey by Anthony Smith and The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker.

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