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The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk Volume Ii The Boundary Survey 1840 1844
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Book Synopsis The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk Volume II The Boundary Survey, 1840–1844 by : Peter Rivière
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk Volume II The Boundary Survey, 1840–1844 written by Peter Rivière and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. After his explorations in Guiana between 1835 and 1839 on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, which are the subject of Volume I of The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844, Robert Schomburgk travelled to London. He was appointed Her Majesty's Commissioner for Boundaries with the duty to survey the boundaries of British Guiana, hitherto undefined. His surveys between 1841 and 1843 consisted of three journeys. The first took him to the mouth of the Orinoco River, from where he traced the boundary south-westward to the Cuyuni River, before returning to Georgetown. The second journey involved the survey of the boundary with Brazil: first, south to the sources of the Takutu River; and then north to Mount Roraima. In the third he covered the boundary with Dutch Guiana (modern Surinam), which involved an arduous trip down the length of the Corentyne River. Schomburgk returned to London in 1844 and was knighted for his services. Volume II of The Guiana Travels contains his reports of these journeys. In abbreviated form they appeared in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Here they are published in full, including the material censored by the Colonial Office, which mainly details abuses of the native population committed by Venezuelans and Brazilians. In an 'Epilogue' an account is provided of his later career. The volume also includes two appendices: a summary of the boundary disputes which arose as a result of Schomburgk's survey and a vocabulary of vernacular plant names.
Book Synopsis The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844 by : Peter Rivière
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844 written by Peter Rivière and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Robert Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, between 1835 and 1839 Schomburgk explored much of the interior of the colony and completed the arduous overland journey to the Orinoco to connect his survey with that of Alexander von Humboldt in Brazil.
Book Synopsis The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844 by : Peter Rivière
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844 written by Peter Rivière and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Robert Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. It covers the journeys made by Schomburgk when surveying and establishing the boundaries of British Guiana, now Guyana, between 1841 and 1843.
Book Synopsis The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk / 1835-1844 / Volume I / Explorations on Behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835-183 by : Peter Rivière
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk / 1835-1844 / Volume I / Explorations on Behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835-183 written by Peter Rivière and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. Robert Schomburgk left his native Germany for North America in 1828, aged twenty-four. A year later he was in the Caribbean, where, after various business failures, he devoted himself to the investigation of natural history, especially botany. Although he had no previous contact with the Royal Geographical Society in London, the work he submitted to it was of such a quality that he was able to persuade the Society to sponsor explorations in the north-east of South America, an area for which no accurate maps and little reliable information existed. From Schomburgk's arrival in British Guiana in 1835 up to 1839, he explored much of the interior of the colony and completed the arduous overland journey to the Orinoco to connect his survey with that of Alexander von Humboldt. During these expeditions he witnessed maltreatment of Amerindians at the hand of Brazilians, and having ascertained that the boundary between Brazil and British Guiana was undefined he proposed it should be fixed so that those within the British colony would be protected from further harassment. The British Government decided to go ahead with this exercise, and Schomburgk was appointed boundary commissioner with the task of surveying the boundaries of the colony. He did this between 1841 and 1843, returning to London in 1844 to be rewarded with a knighthood for his services. During much of his subsequent career, until his death in 1865, he acted as a British consul, first in Santo Domingo and then in Bangkok.
Book Synopsis Renewing the House by : Alice Victoria Maud Samson
Download or read book Renewing the House written by Alice Victoria Maud Samson and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two thousand archaeological features cut directly into the limestone bedrock, and an artefact assemblage of pottery, shell and stone led to reconstructions of fifty domestic structures, thirty of which are houses, and interpretations of the spatial organization and chronology of the site between ca. AD 800 and 1504. --
Book Synopsis The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844 by : Peter Rivière
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844 written by Peter Rivière and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Robert Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, between 1835 and 1839 Schomburgk explored much of the interior of the colony and completed the arduous overland journey to the Orinoco to connect his survey with that of Alexander von Humboldt in Brazil.
Book Synopsis Strange Enemies by : Aparecida Vilaça
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Book Synopsis Ingenuity in the Making by : Richard J. Oosterhoff
Download or read book Ingenuity in the Making written by Richard J. Oosterhoff and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
Book Synopsis Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844 by : Moritz Richard Schomburgk
Download or read book Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844 written by Moritz Richard Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844 Volume 1 - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Moritz Richard Schomburgk
Download or read book Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844 Volume 1 - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Moritz Richard Schomburgk and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana 1840 - 1844 by : Richard Schomburgk
Download or read book Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana 1840 - 1844 written by Richard Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844 written by Robert Hermann Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
