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The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk Volume Ii The Boundary Survey 1840 1844
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Author : Peter Rivière
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-17
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk Volume Ii The Boundary Survey 1840 1844 written by Peter Rivière and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-17 with History categories.
This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. After his explorations in Guiana between 1835 and 1839 on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, which are the subject of Volume I of The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844, Robert Schomburgk travelled to London. He was appointed Her Majesty's Commissioner for Boundaries with the duty to survey the boundaries of British Guiana, hitherto undefined. His surveys between 1841 and 1843 consisted of three journeys. The first took him to the mouth of the Orinoco River, from where he traced the boundary south-westward to the Cuyuni River, before returning to Georgetown. The second journey involved the survey of the boundary with Brazil: first, south to the sources of the Takutu River; and then north to Mount Roraima. In the third he covered the boundary with Dutch Guiana (modern Surinam), which involved an arduous trip down the length of the Corentyne River. Schomburgk returned to London in 1844 and was knighted for his services. Volume II of The Guiana Travels contains his reports of these journeys. In abbreviated form they appeared in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Here they are published in full, including the material censored by the Colonial Office, which mainly details abuses of the native population committed by Venezuelans and Brazilians. In an 'Epilogue' an account is provided of his later career. The volume also includes two appendices: a summary of the boundary disputes which arose as a result of Schomburgk's survey and a vocabulary of vernacular plant names.
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844
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Author : Peter Rivière
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-01
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844 written by Peter Rivière and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with History categories.
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.
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844
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Author : Peter Rivière
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2006-01-01
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844 written by Peter Rivière and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
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.
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk Volume Ii The Boundary Survey 1840 1844
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Author : Peter Rivière
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-17
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk Volume Ii The Boundary Survey 1840 1844 written by Peter Rivière and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-17 with History categories.
This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. After his explorations in Guiana between 1835 and 1839 on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, which are the subject of Volume I of The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844, Robert Schomburgk travelled to London. He was appointed Her Majesty's Commissioner for Boundaries with the duty to survey the boundaries of British Guiana, hitherto undefined. His surveys between 1841 and 1843 consisted of three journeys. The first took him to the mouth of the Orinoco River, from where he traced the boundary south-westward to the Cuyuni River, before returning to Georgetown. The second journey involved the survey of the boundary with Brazil: first, south to the sources of the Takutu River; and then north to Mount Roraima. In the third he covered the boundary with Dutch Guiana (modern Surinam), which involved an arduous trip down the length of the Corentyne River. Schomburgk returned to London in 1844 and was knighted for his services. Volume II of The Guiana Travels contains his reports of these journeys. In abbreviated form they appeared in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Here they are published in full, including the material censored by the Colonial Office, which mainly details abuses of the native population committed by Venezuelans and Brazilians. In an 'Epilogue' an account is provided of his later career. The volume also includes two appendices: a summary of the boundary disputes which arose as a result of Schomburgk's survey and a vocabulary of vernacular plant names.
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844 Volume I Explorations On Behalf Of The Royal Geographical Society 1835 183
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Author : Peter Rivière
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-04
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844 Volume I Explorations On Behalf Of The Royal Geographical Society 1835 183 written by Peter Rivière and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04 with categories.
This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. Robert Schomburgk left his native Germany for North America in 1828, aged twenty-four. A year later he was in the Caribbean, where, after various business failures, he devoted himself to the investigation of natural history, especially botany. Although he had no previous contact with the Royal Geographical Society in London, the work he submitted to it was of such a quality that he was able to persuade the Society to sponsor explorations in the north-east of South America, an area for which no accurate maps and little reliable information existed. From Schomburgk's arrival in British Guiana in 1835 up to 1839, he 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. During these expeditions he witnessed maltreatment of Amerindians at the hand of Brazilians, and having ascertained that the boundary between Brazil and British Guiana was undefined he proposed it should be fixed so that those within the British colony would be protected from further harassment. The British Government decided to go ahead with this exercise, and Schomburgk was appointed boundary commissioner with the task of surveying the boundaries of the colony. He did this between 1841 and 1843, returning to London in 1844 to be rewarded with a knighthood for his services. During much of his subsequent career, until his death in 1865, he acted as a British consul, first in Santo Domingo and then in Bangkok.
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844
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Author : Peter Rivière
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-01
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844 written by Peter Rivière and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with categories.
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.
Renewing The House
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Author : Alice Victoria Maud Samson
language : en
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Release Date : 2010
Renewing The House written by Alice Victoria Maud Samson and has been published by Sidestone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
Over two thousand archaeological features cut directly into the limestone bedrock, and an artefact assemblage of pottery, shell and stone led to reconstructions of fifty domestic structures, thirty of which are houses, and interpretations of the spatial organization and chronology of the site between ca. AD 800 and 1504. --
Strange Enemies
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Author : Aparecida Vilaça
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-19
Strange Enemies written by Aparecida Vilaça and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-19 with Social Science categories.
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that “the region’s most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!” Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different worldviews. During the 1940s and 1950s, white rubber tappers invading the Wari’ lands raided the native villages, shooting and killing their victims as they slept. These massacres prompted the Wari’ to initiate a period of intense retaliatory warfare. The national government and religious organizations subsequently intervened, seeking to “pacify” the Indians. Aparecida Vilaça was able to interview both Wari’ and non-Wari’ participants in these encounters, and here she shares their firsthand narratives of the dramatic events. Taking the Wari’ perspective as its starting point, Strange Enemies combines a detailed examination of these cross-cultural encounters with analyses of classic ethnological themes such as kinship, shamanism, cannibalism, warfare, and mythology.
Ingenuity In The Making
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Author : Richard J. Oosterhoff
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2021-11-09
Ingenuity In The Making written by Richard J. Oosterhoff and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Science categories.
Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844
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Author : Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Guiana Travels Of Robert Schomburgk 1835 1844 written by Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Guiana categories.