Masters of All They Surveyed
Subtitle: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 20, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780226081212
First sentence: At the end of the nineteenth century, when disputes over the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana looked likely to draw the United States into conflict with Great Britain, President Grover Cleveland delivered a strongly worded call for congressional appropriations.