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Rockland, Michael Aaron (Introduction)

Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847

1970

28,20 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1970
Lugar de impresión
Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press
Autor
Rockland, Michael Aaron (Introduction)
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - North America Americana
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

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.