The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844

The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk, 1835-1844
Author: Peter Rivière
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780904180886

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.

Letter from Sir John Bowring, with Related Material

Letter from Sir John Bowring, with Related Material
Author: John Bowring
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2
Release: 1827
Genre: Letters
ISBN:

Comprises 1 autograph letter from Bowring to an unnamed recipient on 5 February 1827 (with a transcript), 1 portrait photograph of him taken by Maull & Polyblank, of London, and a printed portrait of him extracted from the Illustrated London News for 7 December, 1872. The bound volume also contains a typescript biography of Bowring which is quite similar to that found in the Dictionary of National Biography.