The Mexican guide (1886)
Book Author Thomas A. Janvier
DescriptionTHIS book contains the information that I felt the want of when I first went to Mexico. The theory upon which it is constructed is, that what can be easily found and plainly seen need not be laboriously described ; that a traveller of ordinary intelligence, after being told what to look for, and where to look for it, in a strange country, desires most to know the historic facts and associations connected with what he sees. Consequently—while I have not shrunk from using angular facts wherever clearness made such facts necessary—there are not many lengths, breadths, and thicknesses in this guide-book. I shall be very grateful for suggestions in regard to changes or additions, statistical or otherwise, that those who use the Guide may consider necessary ; and still more grateful for corrections of the errors which, no doubt, will be found in my work.