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Robert Hermann Schomburgk's Travels in Guiana and on the Orinoco During the Years 1835-1839
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202
Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana
  • Language: en

Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1841
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The History of Barbados
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 780

The History of Barbados

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1848
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844: Explorations on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835-1839
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844: Explorations on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, 1835-1839

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.

Fishes of British Guiana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Fishes of British Guiana

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1843
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Sir Robert H. Schomburgk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Sir Robert H. Schomburgk

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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 Flower of Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

The Flower of Empire

In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian l...

The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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