Facundo, or, civilization and barbarism
By: Domingo F. Sarmiento ; translated by Mary Mann ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Contributors: Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887; Stavans, Ilan.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Quiroga, Juan Facundo, 1790-1835.; Rosas, Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de, 1793-1877.; Argentina -- History -- 1817-1860.; Argentina -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Facundo; Civilization and barbarism
Description: "Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals and long known to English-speaking readers as Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants, Facundo (1845) is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga.".

"Combining history, sociology, and political commentary, Sarmiento explores the impact of Argentine geography on the life of the gaucho; chronicles the often bloody political and military adventures of Facundo; examines the reign of the tyrannical ruler Juan Manuel de Rosas; and ponders the future of Argentina. This edition includes an informative introduction and a chronology of Sarmiento's life and times.

It also restores the original author's note that was dropped for the 1868 English-language edition - and that is crucial to our understanding of Sarmiento and his views."--BOOK JACKET.