Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1230196897 ISBN 13 : 9781230196893

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Some apology, I am aware, is necessary for offering so meagre an account of Mexico as that which is set before the reader in the following pages. In justice to myself, however, I may state that all the notes and memoranda of the country I passed through, as well as several valuable and interesting documents and MSS. connected with the history of Northern Mexico and its Indian tribes, which I had collected, were unfortunately destroyed (with the exception of my rough note-book) in passing the Pawnee Fork of the river A rkansa, as I have mentioned in the body of this narrative; and this loss has left me no alternative but to give a brief outline of my journey, which, bare as it may be, I prefer to lay before the reader in its present shape, rather than draw at hazard from the treacherous note-book of memory, or the less reliable source of a fertile imagination. It is hardly necessary to explain the cause of my visiting Mexico at such an unsettled period ;and I fear that circumstances will prevent my gratifying the curiosity of the reader, should he feel any on that point. This little work is merely what its title professes it to be, The Rough Notes of a Journey through Mexico, and a Winter spent amongst the wild scenes and wilder characters of the Rocky Mountains, and has no higher aim than to give an idea of the difficulties and hardships a traveller may anticipate, should he venture to pass through it and mix with its semi-barbarous and uncouth people, and to draw a faint picture of the lives of those hardy pioneers of civilisation whose lot is cast upon the boundless prairies and rugged mountains of the Far West.
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À propos de cette édition

• ISBN 10: 1230196897
• ISBN 13: 9781230196893
• Reliure: Broché