South America: Observations and Impressions

South America: Observations and Impressions - New edition corrected and revised

Whoever read as a boy the books of old travellers in the Andes, such as Humboldt's Aspects of Nature, or pored over such accounts of the primitive American peoples as are given in Prescott's Conquest of Peru must have longed to visit some day the countries that fired his imagination. These had been my experiences, and to them there was subsequently added a curiosity to learn the causes which produced so many revolutions and civil wars in Spanish America, and, still later, a sense that these countries, some of them issuing from a long period of turbulence, were becoming potent economic factors in the modern world. So when after many years the opportunity of having four clear months for a journey to South America presented itself, I spent those months in seeing as much as I could within the time, and was able to make some observations and form certain impressions regarding the seven republics I visited. These observations and impressions are contained in the following pages. They are, of course, merely first impressions, but the impressions which travel makes on a fresh mind have their value if they are tested by subsequent study and by being submitted to persons who know the country thoroughly. I have tried so to test these impressions of mine, and hope they may be of service to those who desire to learn something about South America, butxviii have not time to peruse the many books of travel that have been written about each of its countries. The chief points of interest which these countries have for Europeans and North Americans may be summed up as follows: 1. The aspects of nature. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45961
Author: Bryce, James Bryce
Release Date: Jun 14, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English