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Book Synopsis A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical, Exhibiting Its Resources and Capabilities, Together with the Present and Future Condition and Prospects of the Colony by : Sir Robert Schomburg
Download or read book A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical, Exhibiting Its Resources and Capabilities, Together with the Present and Future Condition and Prospects of the Colony written by Sir Robert Schomburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the island that was once Britain's foremost colonial possession in the Western Hemisphere.
Book Synopsis A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical by : Robert Hermann Schomburgk
Download or read book A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical written by Robert Hermann Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Flower of Empire by : Tatiana Holway
Download or read book The Flower of Empire written by Tatiana Holway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Americana by : John Russell Smith
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Russell Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Book Synopsis Account of the Black Charaibs in the Island of St Vincent's by : Sir Williams Young
Download or read book Account of the Black Charaibs in the Island of St Vincent's written by Sir Williams Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from the original documents of Sir William Young who headed a commission to the island after it was annexed to Britain in 1763, this history shows an independent people in their struggle against the Red Charaibs and then against the British settlers.
Book Synopsis The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies by : Lillian M. Penson
Download or read book The Colonial Agents of the British West Indies written by Lillian M. Penson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1924, at the time, this was the first detailed study which attempted to investigate the workings and character of the powerful West Indian interest in London in the eighteenth century. At the centre of this interest stood the Colonial Agent, an office which had come into existence when the West Indian interest was born. Dr. Penson traces its growth from the Restoration era, through the Peace of Paris, when its importance began to decline, to the nineteenth century when the office finally disappeared. It is based on exhaustive research in public and private archives.
Book Synopsis A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes by : Richard Ligon
Download or read book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes written by Richard Ligon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates the size and complexity of the estates acquired in Barbados by subtle and greedy' planters, even in the early days of the industry.
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Lindesiana ... by : James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
Download or read book Bibliotheca Lindesiana ... written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Historical Account of the Island of St Vincent by : Charles Shepard
Download or read book An Historical Account of the Island of St Vincent written by Charles Shepard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Shephard, a legal officer of the island of Saint Vincent, made no attempt at objectivity in his account of the great 1795 Carib rebellion, this book being dedicated to the British survivors. But having had access to several contemporary diaries and having interviewed survivors, he was able to correct and expand the narratives of Bryan Edwards and Dr Coke, making this work the most detailed account of the overthrow of a unique people.
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Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Americana by : Alfred Russell Smith
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Alfred Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Jamaica by : William James Gardner
Download or read book The History of Jamaica written by William James Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systematic history of Jamaica was written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and the mass of pamphlet literature which had been published over the years.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library by : London Institution. Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library written by London Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue or alphabetical index by : New York city, Astor libr
Download or read book Catalogue or alphabetical index written by New York city, Astor libr and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896 by : Lionel Mordant Fraser
Download or read book History of Trinidad from 1781-1839 and 1891-1896 written by Lionel Mordant Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers the period of rapid expansion after the British conquest in 1797 until the colony was faced with dislocations coinciding with the emancipation of the slaves.
Book Synopsis Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library by : Astor Library
Download or read book Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Books in the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario on November 1, 1912 by : Ontario. Legislative Library
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario on November 1, 1912 written by Ontario. Legislative Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
