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The Discovery of Guiana

Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters, he engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his time, and was distinguished in them all. His father was a Devonshire gentleman of property, connected with many of the distinguished families of the south of England. Walter was born about 1552 and was educated at Oxford. He first saw military service in the Huguenot arm ...

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  • "Discoverie of the large, rich, and bevvtifvl empyre of Gviana"@en
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  • "Discoveries of the World"@en
  • "Discovery of the large and beautiful empire of Guiana"
  • "Discovery of the large and beautiful empire of Guiana"@en

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  • "Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters, he engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his time, and was distinguished in them all. His father was a Devonshire gentleman of property, connected with many of the distinguished families of the south of England. Walter was born about 1552 and was educated at Oxford. He first saw military service in the Huguenot arm ..."@en
  • "Sir Walter Raleigh was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer. In 1594, he came into possession of a Spanish account of a great golden city at the headwaters of the Caroní River, and a year later he explored what is now eastern Venezuela in search of Manoa, the legendary city in question. Once back in England, he published The Discovery of Guiana an account of his voyage which made exaggerated claims as to what had been discovered. The book can be seen as a contribution to the El Dorado legend ..."@en

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  • "The Discovery of Guiana"@en
  • "The discoveric of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana"
  • "Discovery of Guiana"
  • "The discoverie of the large and bewtiful empire of Guinea"@en
  • "The Discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana ... Edited ... with introduction, notes and appendixes ... by V.T. Harlow. (Editor: N.M. Penzer.) [With a portrait and maps.]"@en
  • "The discoverie [Discovery] of the large, (rich) and bewtiful Empire of Guiana"
  • "The discovery of Guiana"@en
  • "The discovery of Guiana"
  • "The discoverie of the large and bewtiful empire of Guiana"@en
  • "The discoverie of the large and bewtiful empire of Guiana"
  • "The Discoverie of Guiana"@en
  • "The Discoverie of Guiana"
  • "The discoverie of Guiana"@en
  • "The discoverie of Guiana"
  • "The discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana"
  • "The Discoverie of the large and bewtiful Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh Edited from the Original Text, with Introduction, Notes and Appendixes of hitherto unpublished documents by V. T. Harlow, M.A., B.Litt. Author of Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 1924 A History of Barbados, 1926 etc., etc"@en

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