Times gone by : memoirs of a man of action /

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Author / Creator:Pérez Rosales, Vicente, 1807-1886.
Uniform title:Recuerdos del pasado. English
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (xxxii, 396 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Library of Latin America
Library of Latin America.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131296
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Other authors / contributors:Loveman, Brian.
ISBN:9780199728930
0199728933
9780195117615
0195117611
9780195117608
0195117603
019518467X
9780195184679
9786610470983
6610470987
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Perez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as.
Other form:Print version: Pérez Rosales, Vicente, 1807-1886. Recuerdos del pasado. English. Times gone by. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0195117611 0195117603