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The other way around: North-America and Europe seen through the eyes of a Chilean historian
VICUÑA MACKENNA, Benjamin.Pájinas de mi diario durante tres años de viajes. 1853-1854-1855. California, Mexico, Estados-Unidos, Canada, Islas Britanicas, Francia, Italia, Alemania, Paises-Bajos, Costas del Brasil, Provincias del Plata.    Santiago, Imprenta del Ferrocarril, 1856. 4to. Half green morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, title lettered in gold, marbled endpapers and edges. (8), 454 pp. First edition of the memories of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (1831 - 1886), later published in the Obras Completas of Vicuña, published between 1936 and 1939. Vicuña started his voyage in California, where he visited San Francisco. His next stops were Mexico, New Orleans, Ohio, New York, Boston, Washington, Canada, Liverpool, Paris (to which 3 chapters are dedicated), London, Ireland and Schotland, Lyon, Rome, Tuscany and Lombardia, Dresden and Amsterdam. From Paris he returned to South America, where he visited amongst other cities Buenos Aires. His observations are aimed at cultural and political aspects of the countries he visited; he elaborately discusses monuments and theatre of the cities, aswell as the political situation of the countries, also in relation to eachother and to Chili. Vicuña was a Chilean historian and journalist. A vigorous opponent of the conservative government of Manuel Montt, he was sentenced to death for his part in the revolution of 1851-52, but escaped and spent some years in exile, during which he made this voyage. He returned to Chile in 1856 and remained active in politics, and was exiled again from 1858 till 1861. In 1875, he runned unsuccessfully for the presidency. He became a collector of manuscripts on early Chilean history. His historical works, based on immense knowledge and scholarship, number more than 100 volumes and include biographies of Antonio José de Sucre, Bernardo O'Higgins, and Diego Portales and a detailed chronicle of the War of the Pacific. Fine copy.- (Covers and binding edges slightly rubbed, minor foxing on first and last pages).
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