Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Impressions of Latin America: Five Centuries of Travel and Adventure by English and North American Writers


MacShane, Frank, Ed., Impressions of Latin America: Five Centuries of Travel and Adventure by English and North American Writers, New York: Wm. Morrow & Co., 1963.

Contents:
Introduction.

We Took the Silver and Left the Man, by Sir Francis Drake.

The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Mexico City, 1635, by Thomas Gage.

The Real Robinson Crusoe, by Woodes Rogers.

Santiago in the 1740’s, by John Byron.

The Inquisition in Lima, by W.B. Stevenson.

With San Martin in Peru.

A Visit to Guayaquil, by Basil Hall.

Overnight in a Bolivian Village, by Edmund Temple.

Snake Hunting in the Brazilian Wilderness, by Charles Waterton.

The Indians of Tierra del Fuego, by Charles Darwin.

The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, by Herman Melville.

Prisoner in Paraguay, by G.F. Masterman.

A Cuban Sugar Plantation, by Richard Henry Dana.

The Plains of Patagonia, by W.H. Hudson.

Un Angelito, by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham.

Sao Paulo and a Coffee Estate, by Rudyard Kipling.

Entering the Amazon, by H.M. Tomlinson.

With Pancho Villa in Mexico, by John Reed.

Walk to Huayapa, by D.H. Lawrence.

Antigua, by Aldous Huxley.

An Evening in Havana, by Joseph Hergesheimer.

Antioquia, by William McFee.

Chuquicamata, by Waldo Frank.

In Bogota, by Christopher Isherwood.

Suggested further reading.

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