Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado by D. Graham Burnett

Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado

D. Graham Burnett

314 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

history informative sad medium-paced

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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-centur...

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