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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
by D. Graham Burnett
- EXPLORATION
- 2001
- PAPER
- 314 PAGES
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A lively, well-illustrated account of the exploration and mapping of British Guiana, now Guyana. Burnett zeroes in on the 1830's adventures of Robert H. Schomburgk on the trail of Sir Walter Raleigh and rumors of gold. With excellent archival maps and maps and natural history drawings. It's a heady meditation on history, geography and nation.
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