Journal of a voyage to Peru : a passage across the Cordillera of the Andes in the winter of 1827, performed on foot in the snow, and a journey across the Pampas

Date:

1828

Author:

Brand, Charles, Lieutenant.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Call Number:

F 2217 B82 1828 local

Publisher:

Henry Colburn

Abstract:

A British naval officer's evocative account of a stormy winter crossing of the Andes he made by mule and by foot in 1827. Brand travelled to Peru via Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. His journal comments on Rio's slave market (pp 12-15), the botanical gardens and social life (including a detailed description of the imperial family), Pampa Indians, ladies of Santiago de Chile and Lima, a bullfight at Mendoza, the black washerwomen of Buenos Aires, South American houses, etc. He also visited the Juan Fernandez islands. The appendix comprises detailed climatic observations and critical observations and critical reports of Andean posthouses.

Physical Description:

xvii, [2], 346 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, tables ; 24 cm

Notes:

"Ibotson and Palmer, printers"--Colophon.

Subjects:

Travel

Genres/Forms:

Aquatints 1828. gmgpc

Names:

Brand, Charles, Lieutenant Travel South America

Topics:

local

Chronological Terms:

Geschichte 1800-1900 rswk

Geographic Terms:

Andes Description and travel, South America Description and travel, Argentina Description and travel, Pampas (Argentina) Description and travel, Cordillera Occidental (Peru) Description and travel, Andes, Argentina, Argentina Pampas, Peru Cordillera Occidental, South America, and AMERICA DEL SUR DESCRIPCIONES Y VIAJES. renib