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Masters of all they surveyed : exploration, geography, and a British El Dorado
| 責任表示 | D. Graham Burnett |
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | Chicago : University of Chicago Press , c2000 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xv, 298 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm |
| 概要 | 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 Ame...ican colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, 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. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing 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. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science. 続きを見る |
所蔵情報
| 状態 | 巻次 | 所蔵場所 | 請求記号 | 刷年 | 文庫名称 | 資料番号 | コメント | 予約・取寄 | 複写申込 | 自動書庫 |
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中央図 2D_24‐28 [文/地理] | 地理/290.12/B 93 | 2000 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-284) and index |
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| 著者標目 | *Burnett, D. Graham |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Cartography -- Guyana -- History -- 19th century
全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Traverses (Surveying) LCSH:Guyana -- Description and travel 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Guyana -- History -- 1803-1966 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), Sir, 1804-1865 -- Journeys -- Guyana 全ての件名で検索 |
| 分 類 | LCC:GA718.7 DC21:526/.09/034 |
| 書誌ID | 1001014813 |
| ISBN | 0226081206 |
| NCID | BA52807498 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:0226081206 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.16 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.16 |