Oxford’s Undiscovered Guyana offers close-up of remote regions

By Dreylan Johnson On In Guyana News |
“Guyana’s largest and longest river, the mighty Essequibo, runs, like a backbone, through the country. It rises in the deep south of Guyana in the Acarai Mountains before traveling 1,010 kilomotres to empty into the Atlantic Ocean west of Georgetown.”
“Guyana’s largest and longest river, the mighty Essequibo, runs, like a backbone, through the country. It rises in the deep south of Guyana in the Acarai Mountains before traveling 1,010 kilomotres to empty into the Atlantic Ocean west of Georgetown.”
Photo credit: Pete Oxford Facebook page
Photo credit: Pete Oxford Facebook page

The remote regions of Guyana are now accessible, to those who may not want to travel to them, through the pages of Undiscovered Guyana a book featuring images of Guyana’s diverse landscapes.

Two hundred and fifteen pages long, the book showcases mostly aerial images, taken across all of Guyana’s natural regions and highlighting components that, although they may be familiar, are given new life through the lens.

Whether it be the intricate details of the inside of a thatched benab roof, the complexity of Guyana’s vast river systems, a close up of a caiman lying in wait, or the vivid colours of a flock of Ibis in flight, all of the captured images exude some newness even if not being seen for the first time.

The man behind those captures, is Pete Oxford, United Kingdom-born conservation photographer, and one of the