A DESCRIPTION OF BRITISH GUIANA :Geographical and Statistical, Exhibiting its Resources and Capabilities, together with the Present and Future Condition of the colony (Reprints of Economic Classics)

This copy is in as new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and gilt sailing ship to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dust wrapper is not called for. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book is A description of British Guiana, geographical and statistical, exhibiting its resources and capabilities, together with the present and future condition and prospects of the colony. There is a folding sketch map of British Guiana drawn by the author tipped in to the limitation page. A comprehensive study of the island that was once Britain's foremost colonial possession in the Western Hemisphere. During 1831-1835 Robert Schomburgk explored the rivers Essequibo (the sources of which he was the first to reach), Corentya and Berbice, and investigated in detail the capabilities of the colony of British Guiana. In 1840 he was appointed commissioner for surveying and marking out the boundaries of the colony. Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865) was a German-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for the United Kingdom in the Dominican Republic and Thailand. Ref ZZZ 2.…