RUSCHENBERGER, W. S. W.

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Three Years in the Pacific; including notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. First British edition of Ruschenberger's account of the climate, culture, religion and customs of South America, "often detailing the turbulent politics in each of the countries following independence and comparing the situation in the countries with how he encountered them on an earlier Pacific tour aboard USS Brandywine in 1826-9" (Royal Collection Trust).William Ruschenberger (1807-1895) was a surgeon for the United States Navy and president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He published this work anonymously and hoped it would make "my countrymen better acquainted with some of the peculiarities of their southern neighbours" (advertisement).

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