A lady's ride across Spanish Honduras (Registro nro. 118016)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 05009904 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F1501 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Soltera, Maria |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A lady's ride across Spanish Honduras |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Originally published in Blackwood's magazine." |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-11-22 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Richard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A lady's ride across Spanish Honduras" by Maria Soltera is a travel memoir written in the late 19th century. It follows an adventurous Englishwoman riding by mule across Honduras from the Pacific coast toward San Pedro Sula, mixing practical wayfinding with vivid portraits of ports, villages, officials, and fellow travelers. The focus is on the realities of tropical travel—storms, fever scares, rough roads, scant provisions—told with candor, humor, and a pioneering female viewpoint.<br/><br/>The opening of the narrative finds the author weighing two routes into Honduras, rejecting the Panama passage for a cheaper, risk-managed ride from Amapala, and explaining her purpose: to oversee a school for colonists’ children near San Pedro Sula. She sails down the Mexican coast, pauses at Acapulco for a lively shore excursion—admiring the harbor, debating Mexican beauty with shipmates, hiking to glimpse Popocatépetl, and sampling hacienda hospitality—then transfers to a slower steamer where heat, lightning, an unruly family, and a mistaken draught of “congress-water” test her patience. A blustering but kind Scots traveler recovering from near-sunstroke gifts her a small revolver and coconuts before disembarking, and at La Union the noisy family leaves the ship. Arriving at Amapala, she meets the helpful consul’s office, spends a rough night in a posada (complete with a warning about snakes), engages a local lad, Eduardo, as servant, and—after buying a hammock and mosquito net—prepares to cross to Aceituña to secure mules, ending amid hard bargaining for a ladies’ saddle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1884 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Honduras -- Description and travel |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/ladysrideacrosss00soltrich">https://archive.org/details/ladysrideacrosss00soltrich</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77296">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77296</a> |
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