Author: Bowman, Anne
Title: Adventures, Wanderings and Sufferings of the Merton Family; or, Life Scenes Among the South American Indians
Publication: Philadelphia: Quaker City Publishing House, 1868
Description: Hardcover.
Philadelphia: Quaker City Publishing House, 1868.
Original cloth, lettered in gilt.
384 pages.
Illustrated.
Fair or better. Binding fairly good; some foxing to pages; name on front endpaper; covers quite worn.
A very interesting antique account of a family's experience among the Indians of South America. Scarce. Sloan had a copy for sale at $275 in 1986.
"Little known chronicle of the hardships of pioneer life in South America. The author and her family sailed from England to Rio de Janeiro via Madeira and thence to the Andes. Includes a good account of gaucho life in the Pampas and much of interest on the Indians of South America."--Sloan.
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Seller ID: 17669
Subject: Americana
