title: The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk / ... / Volume II / The Boundary Survey, 18401844 (Hakluyt Society, Third Series)
author: Peter Rivire
description: Peter Rivire is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK.
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  The Discovery of Guiana
  
  
    
    
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  ](The%20Discovery%20of%20Guiana_split_001.html#filepos1691)[RALEIGH'S
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  # The Discovery of Guiana
  
  
  ### Walter Raleigh
  
  
  
  
  
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  * INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  
  
  * RALEIGH'S DISCOVERY OF GUIANA
  
  
  * TO THE READER
  
  
  * THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA
  
  
  
  
  
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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, conne