{"product_id":"viajes-al-rio-de-la-plata-y-a-potosi-1657-1660-von-accarette-du-biscay","title":"Viajes Al Rio de La Plata y a Potosi (1657-1660)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling business, and his urge to make another trip prompted him to write a report to no one else but the French king Louis XIV.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe variety and detail of this adventurous businessman -mixture of spy and filibuster- observations on everyday colonial life and customs in Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Jujuy, the mules road, the hide civilization and the Potosi mines, is a highly valuable testimony for the River Plate, Tucuman and Potosi XVII Century history study, more so considering the scarcity of documentation on those places at that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrustrated corsair, or ill-fated governor of hipothetical French possessions on the River Plate, the political circumstaces hampered Accarette's chances to enter the official story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn any case, if the report was discarded by the French, it did not face the same fate in England, where a translation was first published in 1698, and again in 1716.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Accarette report -so full of strategic and tactical details- makes the reader wonder what would have happened if Louis XIV had not been so tied up with the episodes in the Low Countries that led to the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678), and up to which point the British Admiralty had not evoked these writings when planning the invasion to Buenos Aires almost 140 years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition, by Sorbonne professor and researcher Jean-Paul Duviols, is a highly accurate translation into Spanish from the original French version, unlike all previous ones that were based on either the first or second English edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781934768075\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781934768075","offer_id":40861863706717,"sku":"9781934768075","price":31.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/32d1b1a2-1f11-4025-ac98-8cad3ccc3332.jpg?v=1754539812","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/viajes-al-rio-de-la-plata-y-a-potosi-1657-1660-von-accarette-du-biscay","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}