| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

D. Graham Burnett. Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 298. $45.00.

Since Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition to find El Dorado in the 1590s, the interior of Guyana held a special place for those prospecting for the British Empire. The fact that Ralegh had been there (if he had) meant that the British had a prior claim to this swampy bit of South America, and the fact that Robert Hermann Schomburgk, a naturalized British explorer and geographer, was able to explain, debunk, and still claim that El Dorado for Britain solidified this position in the nineteenth century. D. Graham Burnett argues effectively that Schomburgk's geographical surveying and boundary making in British Guiana were imperial projects and yet acted to complicate the imperial claims they were supposed to support. In doing so, Burnett takes us through a rich landscape of traverse surveying, landmark creation, and boundary making, providing a compelling narrative for imperial historians, historians of science, art historians, and historians of South America alike. . . .

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