Excerpt from Argentine Plains and Andine Glaciers: Life on an Estancia, and an Expedition Into the Andes For a book, written for an English public about a foreign country or 'colony, to be satisfactory, it must, I think, have one of three different origins. The author may have spent his life, or a great part of it, in the country of which he is writing, and at the same time have kept in touch with England and English life; this last condition being essential if he is to make his description vivid, or even intelligible, to his English readers. I should say that we have in our literature such pictures of, e.g., Australian life. But the case of a foreign country is different and, in the case of Argentina in particular, this first sort of book may never be written. For it seems to me that the Pampas absorb men; old anglo-argentines lose touch with England, and feel no call to become interpreters. When in England they feel cramped, and only long to be back again in the free life of the camp I writing has no attractions for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.