These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of P�rez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and ...
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These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of P�rez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Translated from the Spanish by John H. R. Polt. Introduction and Chronology by Brian Loveman. Bright and clean wrappers, with just a whisper of wear to the top edge, else Fine. Sound and square binding. Pages edges and pages clean, no markings, no creases. The wildly adventurous Perez Rosales traces his life from his childhood in a well-to-do Santiago family toward the end of Chile's colonial period, up to the 1860s. His many experiences and adventures included his seeing in Argentina, at the age of eleven, the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera; journeying around Cape Horn to Paris where he witnessed the July revolution of the 1830s; trying his hand at practicing medicine; cattle smuggling; and on and on. He ended up with membership in the Chilean Senate. 396 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2003, Oxford University Press, USA.
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