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0195117603 (alk. paper)

0195117611 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780195117608 (alk. paper)

9780195117615 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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memoirs of a man of action /

Vicente Pérez Rosales ; translated from the Spanish by John H.R. Polt ; introduction and chronology by Brian Loveman.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2003.

xxxii, 396 p. :

ill. ;

22 cm.

Library of Latin America

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronology of Vicente Perez Rosales / Brian Loveman -- Introduction / Brian Loveman -- Times Gone By / Vicente Perez Rosales.

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"In these memoirs the wildly adventurous Perez Rosales traces his life from his childhood in a well-to-do Santiago family toward the end of Chile's colonial period, up to the 1860s. During that approximate half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he watched the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830, and on to various commercial ventures including liquor manufacturing, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling." "Returning to South America, he served as an advisor to an Argentine warlord, then worked mining precious metals in the north of Chile. He participated in the California Gold Rush in 1849, served as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in Chile's wild south, and served as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. After writing his memoirs Perez Rosales continued his government service, eventually rising to membership in the Chilean senate."--Jacket.

Recuerdos del pasado.

English

Pérez Rosales, Vicente,1807-1886.

Chile, History, 1824-1920, Anecdotes.

Chile, History, War of Independence, 1810-1824, Anecdotes.

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Pérez Rosales, Vicente,1807-1886.

Loveman, Brian.

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