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Author : Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk
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Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Fishes of British Guiana written by Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Hermann Schomburgk
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Download or read book Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana written by Robert Hermann Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Graham Burnett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226081212
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Masters of All They Surveyed written by D. Graham Burnett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.
Author : Robert Hermann Schomburgk
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Report of the Third Expedition Into the Interior of Guayana written by Robert Hermann Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Rivière
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780904180862
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844: Explorations on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835-1839 written by Peter Rivière and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 442 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.
Author : United States National Museum
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Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the United States National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert William Krieger
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Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Material Culture of the People of Southeastern Panama written by Herbert William Krieger and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggs Bros
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Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dudley Warner
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Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Warner's Dictionary of Authors Ancient and Modern written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Dudley Warner
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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tatiana Holway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911169
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN 13 : 9781437955521
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. 154, 2005) written by and published by Academy of Natural Sciences. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martina Kaller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429763573
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492 written by Martina Kaller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became important in the ‘Old World’, especially with regard to the establishment early modern consumer societies. This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications.
Author : William Jardine
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Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Ichtyology written by William Jardine and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
