Travels in the free States of Central America : Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador.

Londres, Inglaterra : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857.

253 p. : il. ; 20 cm.

Publicado en dos volúmenes, la Biblioteca Ludwig von Mises únicamente posee el volumen 1.

Vol. 1. -- 1. The world's highway. -- 2. Physical geography of Nicaragua. -- 3. Rivas, or Nicaragua. -- 4. Travelling in the dry Season. -- 5. Leon. -- 6. The State of Nicaragua. -- 7. Political condition, agriculture and trade. -- 8. Tipitapa. -- 9. The Indian town of Matagalpa and its environs. -- 10. Journey to Totocalpa. -- 11. Journey to Dipilto. -- 12. Dipilto and its silver mines. -- 13. Projects for the connection of the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean. -- 14. Honduras. -- 15. The first Village in Honduras. -- 16. Tegucigalpa. --

Tomado del prefacio: "The encouraging reception given by my countrymen to the "Studies of the Republic of Costa Rica", a joint production of my esteemed friend and colleague, Dr. Moritz Wagner, and myself, has induced me to offer the results of our observations in our subsequent wanderings through the States of Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador. As, however, the present volumes bear my name only, it is necessary for me to state that the immense and disproportionate accumulation of purely scientific material, the detailed description of the geological features of Central America, of new species of plants and animals, meteorological observations, hypsometric measurements, &c., made during our journey, induced Dr. Wagner to devote himself exclusively to that portion of the subject, leaving to me what was more adapted to the general reader. It has been my object in the following volumes besides furnishing a faithful account of the States and their inhabitants, to point out the great advantages offered by these magnificent countries to trade and emigration, and to show that there exist in Central America tracts of measureless extent, in which prudent and industrious European settlers may not only secure a prosperous and healthy material existence, but maintain their nationality, and remain in commercial and political relation with the land of their birth. However welcome may be to a scientific traveller the idea that his inquiries and observations have tended in any degree to advance the cause of knowledge, it is certainly no less satisfactory to be able to point out to our poor countrymen, driven from their homes by the pressure of social evils, the parts of the earth which will offer him an ample reward to his industry and patience in a secure and honourable subsistence obtained without any risk to health; and I have therefore kept his purpose steadily in view."

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