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Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Joaquín Sorolla, Frederic Remington and David Roberts. Texas and Mexico in the 1840s: adventurers, filibusters and a war that neither government quite admits to, seen by an Irish officer who fought in it. Mayne Reid served in the Mexican war, was wounded at Chapultepec, and wrote his novels from the ground he had crossed. The politics are hot and partisan; the descriptions of the country are the reason he was read across Europe. Fifty-five plates range from Sorolla's Valencian markets to David Roberts's Italian squares, matching Reid's eye for the country his characters ride through.
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Joaquín Sorolla, Frederic Remington and David Roberts. Texas and Mexico in the 1840s: adventurers, filibusters and a war that neither government quite admits to, seen by an Irish officer who fought in it. Mayne Reid served in the Mexican war, w...
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Mayne Reid (1818-1883) was an Irish-American novelist born in County Down. He fought in the Mexican-American war, was badly wounded at Chapultepec, and wrote some seventy adventure novels read across Europe; Nabokov and Chekhov both recorded devouring him as boys. His works include The Rifle Rangers, The Scalp Hunters, The Plant Hunters, and The Headless Horseman.
Mayne Reid (1818-1883) was an Irish-American novelist born in County Down. He fought in the Mexican-American war, was badly wounded at Chapultepec, and wrote some seventy adventure novels read across Europe; Nabokov and Chekhov both recorded devouring him as boys. His works include The Rifle Rang...
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