Excerpt from South America and the Pacific, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising a Journey Across the Pampas and the Andes, From Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima, and Panama; With Remarks Upon the Isthmus The dedication of these pages to you is but a poor acknowledgment of the very great kindness and hospitality I received under your roof at Buenos Ayres. When I returned to England, I had no intention of publishing the notes which I made, occasionally, and irregularly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Excerpt from Adventures on the Western Coast of South America and the Interior of California, Vol. 1 of 2: Including a Narrative of Incidents at the Kingsmill Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, New Quinea, and Other Islands in the Pacific Ocean; With an Account of the Natural Productions, and the Manners and Customs, in France and War, of the Various Savage Tr Equator, there are hundreds of islands of the most luxuriantly vegetating aspect appearing on its sur face some in isolated positions, others grouped together m such beauty, that the mariner who has gazed on the sky and sea alone for months feels an inexpressible pleasure in looking long and earnestiy on these tropical gardens, as his vessel closes in with any of them for the purposes of temporary rest, nefi'eshment for the ship's crew, or trading with the natives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.