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Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826: With Some Account of the Mines of That Country

Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826: With Some Account of the Mines of That Country

Lyon, G. F.

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General Latin American HistoryGeneral World HistoryMexico

ISBN10: 1108070922
ISBN13: 9781108070928
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 17 2014
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The British naval officer George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) survived extremes of African heat and Arctic cold during his colourful career. Remembered chiefly for the engaging journals he kept, and for his watercolours of the Arctic, he was fascinated by the indigenous peoples of the lands he explored, notably being tattooed by Inuit and eating raw caribou and seal meat with them. In 1826 he sailed to Mexico, then recovering from its war of independence, to serve as a commissioner for an English mining company. His vivid and often entertaining two-volume account of his experiences was published in 1828. In Volume 2, Lyon encounters notorious bandits outside Guadalajara, ponders the potential navigation of rivers for commercial shipping, and writes of a visit to the Guadalajara theatre: 'had it not been for the universal smoking, and the silence and good manners of the audience, I might have almost fancied myself in England'.

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