Masters of All They Surveyed

Preface
1. Geography, Exploration, Colonial Territory: An Introduction
Point of Departure
The Lay of the Scholarly Land
A Sketch of the Route
The Destination: A Little Background on British Guiana
2. Myths and Maps: Making Explorers and Empires
Mythical Empire and Interior Exploration 1: Finding El Dorado
Mythical Empire and Interior Exploration 2: Reaching El Dorado
Remapping and the Making of Explorers
Remapping and the Making of Territory
The Other Mythical Empire: Mahanarva
Epilogue: The Ambivalence of Myth and Metalepsis
3. Traversing Terra Incognita: Getting There and Making Maps
Elusive Incognitae
Local Reorientation and Disorientation
Mapping Terra Incognita: The Traverse and Its Weaknesses
Fixed Points 1: The Humboldtian Tradition
Fixed Points 2: Discipline and Navigation
Fixed Points 3: Landmark, Image, Enclosure
4. Marks on the Land: Landmarks, Aesthetics, and the Image of the Colony
Views in Context: Writing the Journey
Views and Strategies of Imperial Visibility
Pictorial Conventions and Landmark Depictions
Schomburgk, Bentley, and the Aesthetic Saturation of Sites
Aesthetic Circuits
From Landmark to Icon
Epilogue: Widespread Views
5. Marks of Passage: Landmarks and the Practice of Geographical Exploration
Re-viewed
Tracks of Passage
Landmarks and Methexis
Amerindian Negotiations
Icarian Anxieties: The Fall as Landmark
Pictorial Conventions and Exploratory Subversions
Epilogue: Place and Erasure
6. Boundaries: The Beginnings of the Ends
Disputed Boundaries/Disputed Man
Delimination, Demarcation, "Deconstruction"?
Consummatio, Landmarks, and the "Natural" Boundary
Traversing the Boundary: The Surpassing Problem
Narrative Part 1: Northwest
Narrative Part 2: Southwest
Narrative Part 3: East
Epilogue: The Wake of the Boundary
7. Conclusion: History, Geography, Nation
Up to This Point
And Over the Line
Epigram
Bibliography
Index