Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go

Tonight we're relaxing with a book by a remarkable woman

An adventurer Explorer mountain A remarkable woman, an adventurer, explorer, mountaineer, and suffragette.

The book is the South American tour by Annie S. Peck, MA, author of a search for the Apex of America, illustrated chiefly

from photographs by the author,

the George H. Doren Company, 1913.

Let's begin. Introduction Introduction I congratulate Miss Annie S. Peck, the publisher of this book and those who consult or read it upon the preparation of a work of this

character. Interest in Latin America is now so rapidly growing throughout all the world and especially in the United States

that a descriptive guidebook of this kind regarding the regions commonly visited by tourists has become an actual need.

Such a work by Miss Peck is a practical and timely contribution to the literature of the day.

There are few persons better qualified to write a book of this character. The remarkable explorations which Miss Peck has

undertaken in the most difficult sections of Latin America and the traveling she

has done in all parts of it not only have provided her with a vast fund of useful information about the countries of South America, but give a special authority to what she writes.

Her book contains in compact form an amount of definite information concerning the countries considered, which should place it in the

forefront of works of this character.

While of course it is impossible for the Pan American Union as an official organization

and myself as its official head to endorse in any way a particular book or accept responsibility for the statements and views

it contains. It gives me real pleasure from a personal standpoint to express the hope that this work of Miss Pack will

have a wide circulation and prove of decided help in promoting travel to and through the Latin American countries.

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