| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books ... London, in 2011" -- T.p. verso. |
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"This is a Borzoi book" -- T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-346) and index. |
| Contents |
The town of George -- The town of Jones -- The golden Rupununi -- A parliament of ants -- The bloody Berbice -- Good morning, Suriname -- Paramaribo -- The hinterlands -- The last of the colonies: Guyane. |
| Summary |
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an interior of watery, green anarchy where border disputes are often based on ancient Elizabethan maps, where flora and fauna are still being discovered, where thousands of rivers remain mostly impassable. And under the lens of John Gimlette -- brilliantly offbeat, irreverent, and canny -- these three small countries are among the most wildly intriguing places on earth. |
| Subject |
Guyana -- Description and travel.
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Suriname -- Description and travel.
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French Guiana -- Description and travel.
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Gimlette, John, 1963- -- Travel -- Guyana.
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Gimlette, John, 1963- -- Travel -- Suriname.
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Gimlette, John, 1963- -- Travel -- French Guiana.
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| ISBN |
9780307272539 alkaline paper |
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0307272532 alkaline paper |
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