Journal of a Voyage to Peru: A Passage Across the Cordillera of the Andes in the Winter of 1827, Performed on Foot in the Snow, and a Journey Across the Pampas

Charles Brand

jan. 1828 · H. Colburn

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A British naval officer's evocative account of a stormy winter crossing of the Andes he made by mule and by foot in 1827. Brand travelled to Peru via Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. His journal comments on Rio's slave market (pp 12-15), the botanical gardens and social life (including a detailed description of the imperial family), Pampa Indians, ladies of Santiago de Chile and Lima, a bullfight at Mendoza, the black washerwomen of Buenos Aires, South American houses, etc. He also visited the Juan Fernandez islands. The appendix comprises detailed climatic observations and critical observations and critical reports of Andean posthouses.