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British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American (1917) (14596858388)
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Koebel, W. H. (William Henry), 1872-1923
Identifier: britishexploitsi00koeb (find matches) Title: British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Koebel, W. H. (William Henry), 1872-1923 Subjects: British -- South America South America -- History Publisher: New York : The Century co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: New Granada, Equador, Peru, and Chile. This book isprimarily concerned with the etymology, lore, rock-sculp-ture, arts, and customs of the Incas and Chibchas. Butbeyond this its unusually wide scope of subjects includesa survey of the modern Indian tribes of the north of thecontinent; travels from the northernmost coast to CapeHorn and the Magellan Straits, a useful gazetteer ofmany districts, a study of the conditions of mining andother industries, and the records of some pioneer survey-ing carried out in Tarapaca. In the 1860s, when the commercial possibilities of thecountries of the river Plate were becoming evident, a con-siderable number of volumes were issued on this subject. A most prolific writer of this period was Thomas J.Hutchinson, who, in his Journey through the SaladoValley, covers most subjects from farms to fortifica-tions, and whose portrait is presented in another of hisworks—Two Years in Peru—as an Inca monarchcrowned with the imperial llauta—and this notwith- Text Appearing After Image: SOUTH AMERICA IN ENGLISH PRINT 473 standing his spreading beard, of which hirsute appendagethe Incas were entirely innocent! A most instructive volume of this authors, publishedin 1865, is Buenos Aires and Argentine Gleanings,which describes in great, and frequently p
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