British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples

Swan, Michael, British Guiana: The Land of Six Peoples, London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1957.(2 copies)

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From the author’s Preface:

This book is the result of a visit which I made to British Guiana for three and a half months at the beginning of 1955. I went to the Colony at the invitation of the Colonial Office, who wished a book to be written about it by an impartial observer. All expressions of opinion are my own and are not necessarily shared by the Colonial Office or the British Guiana Government. I travelled in most areas of the Colony -- by aeroplane, river-steamer, jeep, dug-out canoe and on foot -- and shared, if only superficially, in the diverse forms of living which make the country so fascinating; I stayed on sugar estates in the coastal areas, enjoyed the social life of the expatriate English in Georgetown, met Guianese of every race and passed some weeks with primitive Indians in the deep Interior.