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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
D. Graham Burnett
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| #2571685 in Books | 2001-09-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.70 x6.50l,1.31 | File type: PDF | 314 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Incredible Treatise|By L. Gunther|Thoroughly appreciate owning this book as it contains well-researched information about the early 19th century perspective of British Guiana. I am particularly interested in the explorations and subsequent documentation/contributions of the Royal Geographical Society botanist.|11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.|From Library Journal|The history of the formation of the current country of Guyana is little known. Burnett (fellow, Ctr. for Scholars and Writers, NYPL) has written a fascinating book on the early period of this former British colony in northern South America.
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jun...
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