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| Angel claimed to have discovered a golden river with an old Scotsman named John MacCracken. No one believed his story. But this grave stone, in conjunction with ERC exclusive photographs of John Henry MacCracken, have led to fascinating discoveries. |
| GUIANA In Venezuela, the region where myth, fable, and folly, embellish its lore, where formidable wilderness endures, is known as Guiana. Guiana sits upon and surrounds South America’s formative cradle, the first rocks to form the continent, referred to geologically as a “shield.” The region consists of vast, menacing tracts of rainforest and grassland built upon 3 billion-year-old rocks, nearly as old as the Earth, itself. But this tantalizing rainforest tract is much more than a single mountain, or river, or landmark. Indeed, it is the consummate whole of this “lost” region that has enticed soldiers of fortune, explorers, and noble men since the 16th century. This is a region of peculiarities intertwined within the most elaborate themes in South American historical romance, buried mysteries and secrets, where time has never seemed able to capture the present nor throw away the past. Guiana’s tantalizing cabala instills inexplicable fascination even today, a land where fantasies are born and chimerical tales, emerging since the 1600's, still proliferate. It’s tally includes but is not limited to mythical beasts, 50-foot serpents, headless creatures, wild men (didis), and tribes of White woman warriors. Among all regions of the world, none can say that their lore and mystique, or fantastic legends outdistance an incredible store that is Guiana’s.Above Guiana's elevated carpet of green appear mile-high tepuis, or mesas, which are staggering geological phenomena, some with over 200 square miles of highland wilderness. The tepuis' prehistoric mystique has inspired an exclusive clique of literati. Since the 16th Century, the tepuis have formed the corners of a frame that aggrandizes such legends as the Golden City of Manoa, Lake Parima, El Dorado, and Atlantis. The haunted tepuis abound throughout historical Guiana, whereupon they embellish this verdant carpet. But they are only isolated, elevated parts of a much greater design. Upon interpreting the works of British botanist, Everard Im Thurn, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle coined the term, "Lost World," for the tepui highlands, following Im Thurn's 1884 scientific exploration of the Brazilian tepui, Roraima. Im Thurn, the first outsider to ascend Roraima's fire-borne walls, collected various species of largely unclassified flora and fauna isolated in Roraima's highlands. He returned with samples of life-forms that had been isolated for possibly 400 million years. Twenty-eight years later, 1912, Doyle published The Lost World. |
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