A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVE OF TWENTY YEARS' RESIDENCE IN SOUTH AMERICA: VOLUME 2 by W. B. Stevenson ( 9781139060592 )

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A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVE OF TWENTY YEARS' RESIDENCE IN SOUTH AMERICA: VOLUME 2

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1139060597

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9781139060592

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 January, 2012

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies

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This three-volume work, published in 1825, describes South American society and culture in the final years of Spanish colonial rule.

Synopsis:

In 1804 when W. B. Stevenson (fl. 1803-25) arrived on the small island of Mocha, just off the coast of South America, he stepped onto a continent on the brink of mass revolution. Over the next twenty years, he had an extraordinary range of experiences: as a traveller, a Spanish government official, a prisoner, and as secretary to an ex-Royal Navy admiral turned revolutionary. In this three-volume work, published in 1825, Stevenson gives a dramatic, fascinating account of life and society in South America as it began to break free from Spanish colonial rule. Volume 2 continues Stevenson's description of the culture and customs of Chile, Colombia and Peru. It also covers Stevenson's arrival in the province of Esmeraldas, where he became governor in 1810.

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3 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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