Viaje a América (Tomo 2 de 2)

In the summer of 1893, a Spanish journalist arrives at the Chicago World's Fair and embarks on an extraordinary journey through a nation remaking itself. Rafael Puig y Valls sends his observations back to the pages of La Vanguardia, offering European readers their first vivid glimpse of an America tearing toward the future at breakneck speed. Volume Two follows his passage through the western territories, into Mexico, and finally to Havana, a Cuba still trembling with colonial tension. His prose captures the collide of old and new worlds with an outsider's acuity: the raw energy of American cities, the ancient rhythms of Mexican culture, the sugar-tinged air of Caribbean colonialism. Here is travel writing as it once lived: curious, opinionated, unafraid to judge, and endlessly fascinated by the strangeness of others. For readers who crave the past rendered strange, who want to see America through eyes that saw it fresh, this remains a document of enormous charm and historical value.