Six Years in Bolivia
Six Years in Bolivia: The Adventures of a Mining Engineer (Paperback)
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Paperback
Purdue University Press
06/01/1997
248pp
English
1557531137
9781557531131
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Book Description
Anselm Verener Lee Guise was a young British mining engineer ap pointed to the post of assistant manager of a tin mine in the first d cades of the twentieth century in Bolivia. Six Years in Bolivia: The Adventures of a Mining Engineer (1922) was the result of his experiences and contact with the Bolivian landscape and people. His travel book underlines Guise's concerns with cultural, economic, and gender differences while presenting a personal transformation forced by his adaptation to new ways of life, which compelled him to perform activities far beyond his knowledge.