Download or read book The real Argentine: Notes and Impressions of a Year in the Argentine and Uruguay written by J. A. Hammerton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Argentine promises to deliver an accurate, unfazed, neither idealized nor reductive account of South American countries to the everyday 19th century American citizen. Sir John Alexander Hammerton is described by the Dictionary of National Biography as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known".