Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: guiana, discovery
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $9.90
ISBN-10: 1847028942
ISBN-13: 9781847028945

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 or 1554-1618), was a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the New World, on June 4, 1584, at Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. When the settlement failed, the ultimate fate of the colonists was never authoritatively ascertained, and it became known as "The Lost Colony". In December 1581 Raleigh came back to England from Ireland with despatches as his company had been disbanded. He took part in Court life and became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth. Raleigh is generally considered on

Author: David Hammond
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: shield, guiana, forests, tropical
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2005-11-07
List price: $153.90
ISBN-10: 0851995365
ISBN-13: 9780851995366

The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural hi

Author: Peter Redfield
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: french, guiana, rockets, convicts, tropics, space
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2000-10-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0520219856
ISBN-13: 9780520219854

Rockets roar into space-bearing roughly half the world’s commercial satellites-from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil’s Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield’s ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture. In comparing the Franco-European Ariane rocket program with the earlier penal experiment, Redfield connects the myth of Robinson Crusoe, nineteenth-century prison reform, t

Author: International Travel mapsInternational Travel map
Publisher: International Travel maps
Keywords: map, travel, reference, guiana, surinam, guyana, guianas, french
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1895907683
ISBN-13: 9781895907681

Map of Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana with portions of Brazil and Venezuela. Elevations shown by color changes and numbers on map. Legend locates international and district boundaries; legal border crossing points; settlements from major cities to villages; roads from primary roads to cart tracks/trails; railways; bus stations; car rental; ferry routes; airports; Indian reserves; tourist information centers; embassies; public overseas telephones; medical facilities; banks; post offices; gas stations; mines; oil derricks; dams, canals, and other hydrography; camping/accommodations; parks an