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Times gone by : memoirs of a man of action /
These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Perez 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 activitie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Library of Latin America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Perez 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 396 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780199728930 0199728933 9780195117615 0195117611 9780195117608 0195117603 019518467X 9780195184679 9786610470983 6610470987 |