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Roraima and British Guiana - With a Glance at Bermuda the West Indies and the Spanish Main - cover

Roraima and British Guiana - With a Glance at Bermuda the West Indies and the Spanish Main

J. W. Boddam-Whetham

Publisher: Aeneas Press

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Up the rivers of British Guiana to the great tabletop mountain of Roraima in 1878 - the falls, the forest, the Indian guides and the first serious attempt on the cliff. The mountain later gave Conan Doyle The Lost World. This edition is 55 plates of paintings by Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, J. M. W. Turner and others, 1750–1920.
Available since: 09/16/2026.
Print length: 357 pages.

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