Froudacity: West Indian Fables Explained

Thomas, J. J., Froudacity: West Indian Fables Explained, (with introduction by C.L.R. James and biographical note by Donald Wood), London: New Beacon Books, Ltd., 1969.

From the introduction by CLR James:

The origin of this publication is typical of the relation between imperialism and its colonial dependencies. Imperialism maintains a constant attack upon and a prevailing depreciation of the people it rules (or has ruled). The attack is not always malicious. Quite often it is worse, a genuine sense of outraged superiority stimulating political ignorance and myopia and not averse to plain lying. Froudacity is a reply to an imperialist attack, an attack ignorant and myopic as usual, but this time malign and motivated. The attack was a sitting duck for a counter-blow.

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See also The English in the West Indies, by James Anthony Froude.

West-India policy under the Restoration

Thornton, A. P., West-India policy under the Restoration, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.

From the book jacket:

The Restoration period was the heyday of the West-India sugar-economy. This book, based throughout on original sources, examines the relations between the English Crown and its most valuable possessions.

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Machado de Assis, romancista

Correia Pacheco, Armando, [seleção, prefácio e notas], Machado de Assis, romancista, Washington: União Pan-Americana, [1954].

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Acclimatization in the Andes

Monge, Carlos, Acclimatization in the Andes: Historical confirmations of "climatic aggression" in the development of Andean man,Translated by Donald F. Brown. With a foreword by Isaiah Bowman; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press,, 1948.. 8vo; xix, 130 pp. Second edition.

It is the author's thesis that life at high altitudes deserves a new biology concerned with beings adapted to reduced atmospheric oxygen tension. This field of biology illustrates the principle that the reactions of living organisms are related to the duration as well as to the intensity of imposed stresses. There is every extreme in response ranging from the vomiting newcomer to the hard-working, healthy resident.

O mundo que o portugues criou

Freyre, Gilberto, O mundo que o portugues criou: aspectos as relacoes sociaes e de cultura do Brasil com Portugal e as colonias portuguesas: sociaes, pref. de Antonio Sergio, Rio de Janeiro : Livraria Jose Olympio Editora, 1940; 164p. [Nota: livro em muito mal estado]

Gilberto de Mello Freyre (Recife, 15 de março de 1900 — Recife, 18 de julho de 1987) foi um sociólogo, antropólogo,escritor e pintor brasileiro, considerado como um dos grandes nomes da história do Brasil.

Fundação Gilberto Freyre

A Voyage to the Eastern part of Terra Firma, or the Spanish Main

Depons, François Joseph, A Voyage to the Eastern part of Terra Firma, or the Spanish Main, in South-America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804, Containing a description of the territory under the jurisdiction of the captain general of Caraccas, composed of the provinces of Venezuela, Maracaibo, Varinas, Spanish Guiana, Cumana, and the island of Margaretta; and embracing every thing relative to the discovery, conquest, topography, legislation, commerce, finance, inhabitants and productions of the provinces, together with a view of the manners and customs of the Spaniards, and the savage as well as civilized Indians, 3 Volumes, Translated by an American gentleman, New York: I. Riley and Co., 1806 [all three volumes are in very fragile condition]

From rare, antiquarian, used & out-of-print books on travel in Central America, Caribbean & West Indies:

First edition in English, 8vo [22 x 13 cm]; 3 volumes, xxxii, 248, [vi]; 362, [viii]; 288 pp, large folding engraved map of eastern South America, contemporary tree calf, recased with calf spines and new endpapers, title lettering on paper spine labels, edgewear, some light foxing, bookplate of Bernhard Schaefer on endpapers, signature on vol III title, solid very good set.

The author, an agent of the French government at Caracas, described the history, conquest, topography, political and commercial life, customs & manners of the Spanish and Indians, finance, in the various provinces in the Caribbean under control of the Captain-General of Caracas including Venezuela, Maracaibo, Spanish Guiana, Cumana and the Isle of Margaretta. First published in Paris in the same year, this translation was by Washington Irving and was his first book, published when he was 23. BAL 10096. Sabin19642. Humphreys 564 refers to the two volume 1807 edition published in London. Hill p. 238: 'This is an important account of Venezuela giving a description of the country and people and also accounts of growth and production of cocoa, indigo, sugar, cotton, coffee, and tabacco'. The London edition was entitled, 'Travels in South America, During the Years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804'. Field 421: 'Beside his account of the slaughter and destruction of Indians during the conquest of their nations, the author gives Portrait of the Indians before the arrival of the Europeans'. There is much on the native peoples. Hand D132: 'Important early documentation'.

US$950. bookID # 9093

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El Lazarillo by Concolorcorvo

Kline, Walter D. (translator), El Lazarillo: A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers between Buenos Aires and Lima, 1773 by Concolorcorvo, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965.

From the book jacket:

Available here in its first English translation, El Lazarillo de Ciegos Caminantes relates the humorous experiences and encounters of an inspector of the postal routes between Buenos Aires and Lima during the late eighteenth century. Called "one of the liveliest narratives of the Colonial period," El Lazarillo contains many elements of the picaresque genre, while numerous passages presage the regionalism of nineteenth-century writers.

From the Foreword by Irving A. Leonard:

The literary products of the former possessions of Spain in the New World far exceeded in quantity and quality those of the Atlantic colonies of England in North America. No British historian of English letters is likely to include any prose or versified work composed in the former American dependencies as a significant - much less classic - contribution to the literature of the mother country. Chroniclers of Castilian literary expression, on the other hand, whether Spanish or Spanish American, are pleased and even proud to recognize many works created in the former overseas realms of Spain as worthy elements of the great patrimony of Spanish genius.