Cameron, Charlotte

Mexico in Revolution, An Account of an English Woman's Experiences & Adventures in the Land of Revolution, with a Description of the People, the Beauties of the Country & the Highly Interesting Remains of Aztec Civilization [SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY]

London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1925.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 278 pp + publisher's ads. Original orange cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, Cloth chipped at spine ends, spine dust soiled, uneven sunning to front board. Binding sound, contents clean. Inscribed by Cameron on the front free endpaper "To Dearest Paula, Who has been my treasured friend since 1919. When we met in Alaska, you initiated your charming personality into my heart--I think of you as a sort of 'Dream Daughter.' Wishing you every happiness on this, your wedding day. Charlotte Cameron, Oct 27th 1931." Mounted on the front pastedown (facing the inscription) is a real photo postcard of Cameron in Eskimo garb, hand-dated 1919. An attractive printed card mounted on the rear free endpaper lists Cameron's books published between 1910 and 1922. Cameron traveled extensively and generally alone, publishing books on Africa, South America, Alaska, and the South Seas, among others. Although she has been described by some critics as more of a globetrotting tourist than an explorer (see Robinson p. 177 and the DNB) she was elected to membership in the Royal Geographical Society in 1913, suggesting her contemporaries, at least, felt otherwise.

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