The Discovery Of The Large Rich And Beautiful Empire Of Guiana
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: Sir Walter Raleigh |
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: 342 |
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: 1848 |
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: STANFORD:36105010280936 |
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: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana by : Sir Walter Raleigh
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: 468 |
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: 2006 |
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: UCD:31175030882255 |
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: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by :
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: Sir Walter Raleigh |
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Total Pages |
: 202 |
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: 1901 |
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: UVA:X001930911 |
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: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Discovery of Guiana and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto by : Sir Walter Raleigh
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: Walter Raleigh |
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: 0 |
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: 1970 |
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: 9060727096 |
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: 9789060727096 |
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: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Discoverie of Guiana by : Walter Raleigh
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: Matthew Parker |
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: Thomas Dunne Books |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
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: 2017-04-11 |
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: 9781250112835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250112834 |
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: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Willoughbyland by : Matthew Parker
"First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson, a Penguin Random House company"--Title page verso.
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: Sir Walter Raleigh |
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Total Pages |
: 342 |
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: 1848 |
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: UCSD:31822005840459 |
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: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana by : Sir Walter Raleigh
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: Tatiana Holway |
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: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 339 |
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: 2013-03-01 |
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: 9780199911165 |
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: 0199911169 |
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: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Flower of Empire by : Tatiana Holway
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 life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
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: Hugh De Sélincourt |
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Total Pages |
: 374 |
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: 1908 |
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: HARVARD:32044024183253 |
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: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Great Ralegh by : Hugh De Sélincourt
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: Hakluyt Society |
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Total Pages |
: 342 |
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: 1848 |
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: ONB:+Z252908501 |
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: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis “The” Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana by : Hakluyt Society
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: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
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: 2019-04-09 |
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: 9789004273689 |
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: 9004273689 |
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: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas by :
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding areas through a specific focus on material culture and indigenous agency.