Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Rare and modern books

Rockland, Michael Aaron (Introduction)

Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847

1970

28.20 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Ask for more info

Payment methods

Details

Year of publication
1970
Place of printing
Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press
Author
Rockland, Michael Aaron (Introduction)
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - North America Americana
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xiii, 330 pp, illus, portraits, index. original cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (chipped at spine end, price clipped), fine and clean in very good jacket. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine educator, statesman and writer, travelled extensively in the United States, observing society and conditions, as de Tocqueville before him, and describing his meetings with Horace Mann, Emerson, Longfellow, etc. The 106 page introduction provides a good historical perspective to the Sarmiento's work and correspondence which the editor was able to find and translate.