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  3. Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2014
      17 July 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107281127
      9781108070911
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107281127
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 336 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Latin American History, Economic History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Latin American History, Economic History
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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    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 1, Lyon complains of his first nights being disturbed by 'dogs, pigs and restless cocks', and on his way to the mining area of Zacatecas he visits a church where a figure of Christ made him recall a 'creation of Frankenstein'.

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