1899 The West Indies and the Spanish Main

Description

Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The Story of the Nations Series. Second impression. With a frontispiece and numerous in-text and full-page images. A detailed and comprehensive history of the West Indies and the Spanish Empire in the Americas known as the Spanish Main, with chapters on the Spaniards and their victims, the quest for "El Dorado", the first British colonies, buccaneers and pirates, war in the young colonies, and more. Written by James Rodway, a British-born historian, botanist and novelist of British Guiana. Considered British Guiana's premier historian, Rodway helped to establish national institutions such as the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana and the British Guiana Museum. Bound by Relfe Brothers Limited, London.