Journal of a Residence in Chile During the Year 1822, and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil: And, a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823 - Couverture souple

Graham, Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081392216X ISBN 13 : 9780813922164

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2003

Synopsis

Journal of a Residence in Chile during the Year 1822, and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823 In 1821, Maria Dundas Graham sailed for South America on H.M.S. Doris, a ship sent to protect British mercantile interests in that volatile region. After her husband, the ship's captain Thomas Graham, died en route, the newly widowed Maria Graham landed in Valparaiso, Chile. Resisting all efforts to hustle her back to England, Graham, a professional writer and highly educated woman, rented herself a cottage in the Chilean--not the British--section of Valparaiso and traveled through Chile for nine months until driven out by a major earthquake and the threat of civil war.The resulting Journal of a Residence in Chile (1824) tells the gripping story of a gothic ...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 081392216X
• ISBN 13: 9780813922164
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432