Excerpt from South America and the Pacific, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising a Journey Across the Pampas and the Andes; From Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima, and Panama; With Remarks Upon the IsthmusAnd one of these, had it come in contact with our horses' legs, must have produced a most deplorable result.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Travels in South America From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, Vol. 2 Page The author is received like a brother in a strange family. - Pen-and-ink portraits of a father, mother. 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.

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 A View of South America and Mexico, Vol. 2: Comprising Their History, the Political Condition, Geography, Agriculture, Commerce, &C. Of the Republics of Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Peru, the United Provinces of South America and Chili The republic of Colombia comprises an extent of country, embracing 220 or 1320 miles of longitude, stre from the mouth of Oronoco, to the western extremity of the thlnus of Panama; and of 18° or 1080 miles of latitude, extending llio to the north, and 6} to the south of the equator, calculating from Cape la Vela to the southern extremity of the republic. This vast territory is bounded north and east b the Atlantic ocean, and by the territories of Guiana; west by e republic of Guatemala, or central Pacific ocean and south by the re ublic of Peru, and the river comprised within the the most interesting portions of the globe. Bordering on two oceans, its waters are unrivalled; it embraces a large portion of the immense valley of the Amazon, with the whole of the great vallies of the Oronoco and Magdalena, and is traversed by some of the loftiest mountains in the world. It possesses every diver sity of soil and climate, unrivalled commercial'adv and mineral treasures, which present the most powerful slim us, and promise the greatest reward to the industry and enterprise of ci vilized man. 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.