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Describes the geography, history, culture, religion, and people of Guyana. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Guyana," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Guyana in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Guyana when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Guyana, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 3910 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Canadian author Cyril Dabydeen, who was born in Guyana, calls on memories of his childhood in his works. He uses the Berbice River in Guyana as a metaphor for the African struggle for freedom and identity. Aside from his life in Guyana, Dabydeen points to his exposure to poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Spencer and Auden, among others. Indeed, his works are both ironic and romantic.

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Title: Where doth the Berbice run. (Berbice River, Guyana)
Author: Cyril Dabydeen
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68Issue: n3Page: p451(5)

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One of a series which aims to introduce children to the diversity of countries and cultures to be found in the Americas. Each book provides a detailed map of the country, a text with the relevant geographical details and a system of running and margin headings to aid swift information access. ... Read more

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The Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] is the only professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992, the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and investigation all over the world. In November 2007, a five-person team - Richard Freeman, Chris Clarke, Paul Rose, Lisa Dowley and Jon Hare went to Guyana, South America. They went in search of giant anacondas, the bigfoot-like didi, and the terrifying water tiger. Here, for the first time, is their story...With an introduction by Jonathan Downes and forward by Dr. Karl Shuker. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Railways of Guyana comprised two public railways and several industrial railways, including the first in South America. The Demerara-Berbice Railway, built in then British Guiana (now Guyana), was the first railway system on the South American continent. It was first operated by the Demerara Railway Company, a private concern, but sold to the Colonial Transport Department of the Government, which assumed control from 1 January 1922. The railway ran for 60.5 miles (97.4 km) along the coast from the capital and main port Georgetown in Demerara to Rosignol in Berbice, whence it was connected by ferry steamer across the Berbice River to New Amsterdam. The bill proposing the construction of the railway was passed in July 1846. The railway was designed, surveyed and built by the British-American architect and artist Frederick Catherwood. All the railway stations, bridges, stores and other facilities were constructed by John Bradshaw Sharples. ... Read more

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"The Discoverie", by Walter Raleigh, narrates his expedition to South America in quest of an indigenous 'empire' in the highlands of Guiana. Military encounters with the Spanish, diplomatic encounters with native kings, and enigmatic encounters with monstrous marvels, are woven into a near-mystic quest for hidden gold. However, because of these apparently fantastical elements, this key text on the European expansion into the Americas remains poorly understood. Newly transcribed and annotated, this edition for the first time provides an anthropological commentary of the original edition of "The discoverie" and challenges existing evaluations of both Raleigh and of early travel texts more generally. ... Read more

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difficult but rewarding
Little needs to be said about Ralegh's text beyond the obvious--it is a fascinating example of Renaissance self-fashioning through travel writing.It is reproduced carefully and faithfully here, with a minimum of editorial intrusion, for which readers should be grateful.

Whitehead's long introduction poses more of a problem.It is shockingly badly written--one imagines that the editors threw up their hands in despair at the atrocious quality of the prose.Only professional anthropologists and historians are likely to struggle through it.This is a great shame, because Whitehead's argument is fascinating and important.In essence, he argues that many of the most seemingly fantastical aspects of Ralegh's account (tales of Indians with faces in their chests, etc.) weren't simply European projections, but products of an interaction between European assumptions and native myths.

Another work by an armchair anthropologist
This book is basicaly a rehash of Walter Raleigh's work.Whitehead, never having done any long-term fieldwork in Amazonia, offers little new insight to his readers. He gets away with this by theorizing, as postmodernists often do, from a distance (and using the hard work of others).This book, as so much of his other work, is a sign of the decay of anthropology in USA.

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
I think that this book was excellent. The author was a very talented man. I recommend this book to any one who would like to learn more about the history of South America.

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
I think that this book was excellent. The author was a very talented man. I recommend this book to any one who would like to learn more about the history of South America.

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
I think that this book was excellent. The author was a very talented man. I recommend this book to any one who would like to learn more about the history of South America. ... Read more

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This island of Trinidad hath the form of a sheephook, and is but narrow; the north part is very mountainous; the soil is very excellent, and will bear sugar, ginger, or any other commodity that the Indies yield. It hath store of deer, wild porks, fruit, fish, and fowl; it hath also for bread sufficient maize, cassavi, and of those roots and fruits which are common everywhere in the West Indies. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Victoria is located on the Atlantic coast of Guyana, 18 miles east of Georgetown and bordered by Cove & John to the west and Belfield to the east. It was the first village in Guyana to be bought by the combined resources of Africans who had recently won their freedom from slavery. The community was initially established as a plantation called Northbrook. In November 1839, eighty three ex-slaves from five nearby estates (Douchfour, Ann's Grove, Hope, Paradise and Enmore) pooled their resources and bought Plantation Northbrook for 30,000 guilders or $10,283.63. Each of the eighty three owned one lot of land. After its purchase it was renamed Victoria, presumably in honor of England's Queen Victoria, although some suggest it may have been named as such in honor of the free slaves' victory. ... Read more

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a journey to guyana
This is an excellent book in terms of historical and geographic factors in guyana.The ethnic and cultural differences of the people in Guyana was written clearly. ... Read more

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Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804-1865) was a German-born surveyor and traveller. In 1835-1839 he explored British Guiana for the Royal Geographical Society. In 1840 he was appointed to define its boundaries with Brazil, as Brazilian encroachments were wiping out native tribes. His report to the Colonial Office was published as A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical in 1840, and was the first detailed account of the colony. As well as surveying the land, and being the first European to reach the source of the Essequibo River, he discovered many new species of plants. His work on the boundaries led to the establishment of the 'Schomburgk Line' which was the basis for the definition of the borders with Brazil and Venezuela at the end of the century. He was knighted in 1845, and spent much of the rest of his life abroad as a British consul. ... Read more