Times Gone By - Memoirs of a Man of Action

This is a collection of brief memoirs in which Rosales records his varied adventures in his native Chile, South America, Europe and during the California Gold Rush. Illustrations.

About the author

Brian Loveman is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. John H. R. Polt is Professor of Spanish (Emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez 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 a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg.

Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage.

Product details

• Authors: Vicente Perez Rosales, Vicente Perez Rosales, Vicente Pérez Rosales
• Assisted by: Brian Loveman (Introduction), Loveman Brian (Introduction), John H. R. Polt (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2002
• EAN: 9780195117615
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511761-5
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 212 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Illustrations: 5 halftones
• Series: Library of Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas