Six Years in Bolivia: The Adventures of a Mining Engineer

ISBN-13: 9781557531131 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 246 str.

Anselm L. Guise; Mariselle Melendez

Opis

Anselm Verener Lee Guise was a young British mining engineer ap pointed to the post of assistant manager of a tin mine in the first d cades of the twentieth century in Bolivia. Six Years in Bolivia: The Adventures of a Mining Engineer (1922) was the result of his experiences and contact with the Bolivian landscape and people. His travel book underlines Guise's concerns with cultural, economic, and gender differences while presenting a personal transformation forced by his adaptation to new ways of life, which compelled him to perform activities far beyond his knowledge.