The Foundation and Development of British Guiana
Year: 1911
Type: article
Abstract: My task is to give in one hour a sketch, based upon voluminous docu?ments still inaccessible to the general public, of the foundation, develop?ment, and settlement of that portion of British Guiana which owes its rise to Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande?I mean, of course, the colonies of Essequibo and Demerara; incidentally, a brief biography of that remarkable but utterly forgotten man; finally, a resume of the work performed by Eobert Schomburgk for this Society and for England?work which followed the lines laid down by Storm van 's Gravesande,
Source: Geographical Journal
DOI: 10.2307/1779020
Author: J. A. J. de Villiers
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2329459693