1909, Mexico : The Wonderland of the South by WE Carson, HB ILLUS, 1st VG

Description: First Printing, published October 1909 by The Macmillan Company. Overall in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Clean red cloth boards, light to moderate corner and top/bottom spine wear, light edge wear, black and red decoration with gilt titling front board and spine, lightly rubbed on spine. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED with glossy plates of people and locations in Mexico, as well as a color map of Mexico showing the author's travels (not shown in listing photo. 439 pages ending with 4 pages of ads, top edges gilt. An overview of the book from the internet: "William English Carson (1870-1940) was a controversial writer about social issues but when his book about Mexico first appeared in 1910, critics enthused: “Mr. Carson knows Mexico thoroughly …It would be hard to discover anything worth seeing that he has not seen. He has wandered around the Mexican capital and other old cities; he had explored the gold and silver mines and visited some of the quaint health resorts; he had gone mountain climbing and tarpon fishing …compendious, concise and clear”. A century later Anthony Burton was less impressed: “Despite being an enthusiastic traveler, many of his views about Mexicans will strike modern readers as stereo-typical. For example, he dedicated an entire chapter to The Mexican Woman, which makes for fascinating reading despite many statements which read today as outrageous over-generalizations, such as “no foreigner, unless he be associated with diplomacy, is likely to have any chance of studying and judging the Mexican women”; “the Mexican girl has but two things in life to occupy her, love and religion”; “As a rule, the Mexican women are not beautiful”. !!! While readers may not agree with Carson’s views, the volume remains a classic depiction of Mexico in an era of turmoil." B91

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