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A fictitious 19th-century book intended to teach Americans about travel through Central America and Mexico

This is a text prepared by the Brazilian government to showcase the Empire and its resources to foreign onlookers at the World Fair of 1876.

Part of a 9-volume collection of canonical illustrations of the New World, Volume 8 of de Bry's Americæ introduces readers to visions of Sir Walter Raleigh's, Francis Drake's, and Thomas Candisch's expeditions in the Western Hemisphere.

Roosevelt's zoo-geographic personal account of and through the Brazilian hinterland

Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico analyzes the politics of the multiple correspondences between the Spanish conquistador party and the Aztecs from their initial meeting to the fall of the Aztec empire in modern day Mexico.
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