Payne, A R Middletoun
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? -? ) US author of a Lost Race novel, The Geral-Milco; Or, the Narrative of a Residence in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis (1852; vt Rambles in Brazil; Or, A Peep at the Aztecs, by One Who Has Seen Them 1854), told as a travelogue whose narrator discovers, in the Matto Grosso of Brazil, a mixed civilization of Aztecs (who had fled south after the Spanish destruction of their empire) and Incans; they have created a Utopia featuring applied Economics and signs of a high Technology. They are soon duped by white traders. [JC]
A R Middletoun Payne
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- The Geral-Milco; Or, the Narrative of a Residence in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis (New York: Charles B Norton, 1852) [the title has also been given as The Geral-Milco; Or, Adventures of Two Americans in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis, and the author's given name as Middletown: in Norton's Railroad Library: illus/: hb/]
- Rambles in Brazil; Or, A Peep at the Aztecs, by One Who Has Seen Them (New York: Charles B Norton, 1854) [vt of the above: hb/]
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