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050 00 $aGA718.7$b.B87 2000
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100 1 $aBurnett, D. Graham.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99836058
245 10 $aMasters of all they surveyed :$bexploration, geography, and a British El Dorado /$cD. Graham Burnett.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $axv, 298 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-284) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tGeography, Exploration, Colonial Territory: An Introduction --$g2.$tMyths and Maps: Making Explorers and Empires --$g3.$tTraversing Terra Incognita: Getting There and Making Maps --$g4.$tMarks on the Land: Landmarks, Aesthetics, and the Image of the Colony --$g5.$tMarks of Passage: Landmarks and the Practice of Geographical Exploration --$g6.$tBoundaries: The Beginnings of the Ends --$g7.$tConclusion: History, Geography, Nation.
520 1 $a"Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana.".
520 8 $a"D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities.
520 8 $aDrawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCartography$zGuyana$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aTraverses (Surveying)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85137185
651 0 $aGuyana$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058008
651 0 $aGuyana$xHistory$y1803-1966.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058016
600 10 $aSchomburgk, Robert H.$q(Robert Hermann),$d1804-1865$xTravel$zGuyana.
852 00 $bglx$hGA718.7$i.B87 2000