The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk Volume II The Boundary Survey, 1840-1844

ISBN-13: 9781032319483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

Peter Rivi?re

Opis

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.

Recenzje

’The volumes are the result of the painstakingly detailed editorial work done by Peter Rivière... Rivière's accomplished editing of Schomburgk's manuscripts together with his extensive and detailed footnotes and commentary bring to life someone who has been undeservedly almost forgotten in the very country to which he devoted the greater part of his life and labours, namely, Britain.’ Itinerario

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Venezuela and the northwest boundary: 1841; Brazil and the western frontier: 1842-1843; Dutch Guiana and the eastern frontier: 1843; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Peter Rivière is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.