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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
Masters of All They Surveyed Exploration Geography and a British El Dorado
Author: D. Graham Burnett
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 te...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226081205
ISBN-10: 0226081206
Publication Date: 9/15/2000
Pages: 314
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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