Times Gone By

Memoirs of a Man of Action

By:

Vicente Perez Rosales

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Library of Latin America

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These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage.

Author Biography:

Brian Loveman is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. John H. R. Polt is Professor of Spanish (Emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Release date Australia

November 21st, 2002

Author

Vicente Perez Rosales

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributors

Introduction by Brian Loveman
Translated by John H. R. Polt

Illustrations

5 halftones

Pages

432

Series

Library of Latin America

Dimensions

139x208x27

ISBN-13

9780195117615

Product ID

2395898

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