Tired of books that praised South America on the strength of statistics or a hurried visit, the British journalist J. A. Hammerton spent a year in Argentina and Uruguay and wrote down what he saw. He covers the voyage out, the street life of Buenos Aires, the weather and the mosquitoes, land speculation, prices and the gap between boosterism and reality.
An entertaining, frankly critical counterweight to the promotional travel literature of its day. Download the free EPUB.