Author : Manual a Fuentes
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ISBN 13 : 9781332020997
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)
Book Synopsis Lima by : Manual a Fuentes
Download or read book Lima written by Manual a Fuentes and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lima: Or Sketches of the Capital of Peru, Historical Statistical, Administrative, Commercial and Moral At a moment when the attention of all Europe has been turned towards Peru by the recent proceedings of the Spanish squadron in the Pacific Ocean, we flatter ourselves that the following Sketches of Lima, the capital of that republic, will be received with favour by the reading world. The manners and customs of that fairyland, whose very name has become a proverb, have been constantly misrepresented by the narratives of fantastic voyagers, who, being thoroughly ignorant of the country, have mistaken mere accidental circumstances for the general characteristics of its inhabitants. Many of these writers, indeed, seem to belong to the same category as the French traveller, who, having happened, on arriving at Madrid one day about noon, to see two desperate fellows fighting with long knives, at once noted down in his pocket-book that such was the constant habit of Spaniards every day about that hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.