Among the Indians of Guiana: being sketches, chiefly anthropologic from the interior of British Guiana, etc

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Author: Im Thurn, Everard Ferdinand (1852-1932) Year: 1883 Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench Company Place: London Description: xvi+445+[32 ad] pages with 10 plates including colored frontispiece, 43 figures, fold out map and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover, beveled edges. First edition. Anthropologist, botanist and colonial administrator Sir Everard im Thurn is credited with leading the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Roraima, Venezuela. He is also known for his account Among the Indians of Guiana (1883). On the recommendation of Sir Joseph Hooker, Im Thurn was then appointed curator of the museum in Georgetown, British Guiana (Guyana). He served in this position from 1877-1882, during which time he occasionally sent plants to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He then became a magistrate at Pomeroon. Around this time, Joseph Hooker read an account of the bird-life of Mount Roraima by ornithologist Henry Whitely, who had visited the area in the border region of Guyana and Venezuela in 1883. Inspired by descriptions of its rich natural history, Hooker implored Im Thurn to explore Roraima further. Im Thurn thus led the first successful expedition to the plateau of Roraima in 1884. Accompanied by surveyor Harry Perkins and a team of indigenous assistants, Im Thurn cut through swathes of dense forest thought impassable by previous explorers. On reaching Roraima's steep cliff face, t

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