Dix (John)
John Dix was an American author of 'A Winter in Madeira and a Summer in Spain and Florence' (New York, 1850). The Elucidário considers it one of the fairest foreign accounts of Madeira.
Works: A Winter in Madeira and a Summer in Spain and Florence, New York, 1850, 1 vol. This work was partly translated by J. de Meneses, under the following title: Um inverno na Madeira, California, 1896, 1 vol. At the end, this translation carries some short notes clarifying the text, which the translator says are the work of a distinguished Madeiran writer. Dix’s book, despite whatever inaccuracies and mistaken judgements it may contain, is one of the foreign works written about Madeira in which the author shows the greatest impartiality and the greatest desire to be fair to Madeiran things and people.
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- California
United States. Where the Portuguese translation was published.
Where the Portuguese translation was published.
- New York
United States of America. Where Dix's book was published.
Nova Iorque (New York) is the city where books by John Dix and a second edition of Colvocoress's book were published, and where Matias Figueira da Silva contributed to medical journals. Moisés Gonçalves qualified at a dental school there, and Alípio Augusto Ferreira died there in poverty.
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Author of a book on a winter spent in Madeira, published in 1850 and praised for its impartiality.
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Translated part of Dix's book as 'Um inverno na Madeira', published in California in 1896.