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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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226081212
ISBN-10: 0226081214
Publication Date: 9/20/2001
Pages: 314
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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