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1) Narrative of a voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the years 1599-1602

Author

Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635

Series

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society

2) Mornings in Mexico

Author

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

Publication Date

1927

Physical Desc

6 p. ℓ., 3-189 p. 21 cm.

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D. H. Lawrence's homage to his travels in Mexico and the American south-west. The first four essays are products of a short visit to Oaxaca in Mexico. The following three, which include Lawrence's classic account of the Hopi snake dance, are set in New Mexico. In the last essay, Lawrence remembers Saint Catherine's Day at the ranch in Taos from the vantage point of his new residence in Italy. All are written in an inimitable style which combines acute...

3) Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan

Author

Stephens, John Lloyd, 1805-1852

Description

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John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805 - October 13, 1852) was an American explorer, writer, and diplomat. Stephens was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railroad. When the Panama Railroad Company was founded in 1849, Stephens was chosen to be Vice President. He visited Panama and New Granada to make arrangements for the laying of the railroad. On his way to Bogota,...

4) Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé expedition: comprising a description of a tour through Texas, and across the great southwestern prairies, the Camanche and Caygüa...

Author

Kendall, Geo. Wilkins (George Wilkins), 1809-1867

Publication Date

1847 [c.1844]

Physical Desc

2 v. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

5) Small bites of love and life and some crazy places

Author

Kuntz, Peter

Publication Date

c1999

Physical Desc

71 p. : ill.

6) Mexico

Series

Country watch

Publication Date

[2013]

Physical Desc

1 online resource (1 video file (6 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.

Description

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Mexico is a Latin American leader on the US southern border with a rapidly growing population and economy and is a strategic interest to the US.

7) This, too, is ours

Author

Smith, Doris Sawyer, 1913

Publication Date

[1965]

Physical Desc

xi, 156 p. illus., port. 22 cm.

8) Mexico: women in culture, business, & travel

Author

World Trade Press

Publication Date

c1993-2010 [2010]

Physical Desc

5 p. : ill.

9) Red white blue and God bless you: a portrait of Northern New Mexico

Author

Harris, Alex, 1949-

Publication Date

c1992

Physical Desc

127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 x 29 cm.

10) Commerce of the prairies: two volumes in one edition

Author

Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850

Publication Date

c2001

Physical Desc

429 p.

11) Mexico: society & culture

Author

World Trade Press

Publication Date

c1993-2010 [2010]

Physical Desc

32 p. : ill.

12) Life in Mexico: the letters of Fanny Calderón de la Barca, with new material from the author's private journals

Author

Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis), 1804?-1882

Publication Date

1966

Physical Desc

xxix, 834 p. illus., maps, ports. 25 cm.

13) The Mexico City reader

Publication Date

c2004

Physical Desc

xvii, 346 p. : ill.

14) Sea of Cortez; a leisurely journal of travel and research: with a scientific appendix comprising materials for a source book on the marine animals of the Panamic faunal province

Author

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

15) A Privateer's Voyage Round the World

Author

Shelvocke, George

Series

Seafarers' voices

Publication Date

2010.

Physical Desc

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Description

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In 1719, Captain George Shelvocke, a poverty-stricken ex-naval officer, appealed for help to an old shipmate, Edward Hughes, who was then part of a consortium fitting-out two privateering vessels to prey on the Spanish in the Pacific. He offered Shelvocke the captaincy of the larger ship but then demoted him to a smaller vessel, and Shelvocke, bitter and revengeful, immediately set off on his own for South America with a semi-mutinous crew, and his...

16) Life in Mexico

Author

Calderon de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis), 1804?-1882

Publication Date

1982

Physical Desc

548 p. : map.

17) The cruise of a land-yacht

Author

Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927

Publication Date

1891

Physical Desc

iv, 263 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23.5 x 18.5 cm.

Description

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Sylvester Baxter (1850 1927) was a Boston area newspaper writer and urban planner. In 1893 he became the first secretary of the Massachusetts Metropolitan Park Commission and along with Charles Eliot was a chief force in the development of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. Born in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Baxter attended universities in Leipzig and Berlin in the 1870s before returning to Boston and becoming a writer for the Boston...