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Publication Date
1927
Physical Desc
6 p. ℓ., 3-189 p. 21 cm.
Description
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...
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Description
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,...
6) Mexico
Series
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (6 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.
Description
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.
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Publication Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Description
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...
Author
Publication Date
1891
Physical Desc
iv, 263 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23.5 x 18.5 cm.
Description
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...





