Working North From Patagonia - Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, through Southern and Eastern South America

The Century Co. New York, 1921. Attractive illustrated cloth covers, firm binding, front inner hinge is cracked but not breaking.

Illustrated with 176 unusual photographs by the author, many of them images of local people going about their various trades and occupations. There is also a map showing the route taken. Franck intimately records life as it was lived in the societies he visited, at a time when many of them were changing rapidly due to industrialization. Some may find it hard to believe the societies described existed only a century ago. Franck's tour begins in Panama, passing south through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, then turning inland through Bolivia and Paraguay, skirting the border of Uruguay to Argentina. Centred in Buenos Aires, he takes trips into the Argentinian hinterland, including a transit of the Andes and an tour of central Chile. He then returns through Argentina and heads north through Uruguay to Brazil, following, for the most part, the eastern coast as far as the mouth of the Amazon. He then follows the course of the Amazon inland as far as Manaos where he diverts northwards to the Guianas (British, Dutch and French) and completes his adventure by crossing Venezuela...

Note: This is an old book. Observations which are racist in nature mirror the attitudes of the author's time.