1889 Recollections of Travels Abroad

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Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

With a colour fold out map. A hard to find work. Alexander James Duffield was a Spanish scholar and mining engineer born in Tettenhall, Staffordshire. After marrying and emigrating to South America, spending time in Bolivia and Peru as a mining chemist, and learning Spanish Duffield conceived the idea of translating 'Don Quixote', a translation which he successfully completed in 1881. An eccentric character Duffield is renowned for not only this translation but also for his various business enterprises, most notably his unsuccessful plan to introduce alpacas into Australia. Within this text Duffield recounts his travels around the world, offering a keen observation of people and place in a style that is touched with enjoyable cynicism.