Yda Addis's Travel Guide: With her father, Alfred Shea Ad...
Saint James, Sterling While Yda Addis was a well known 19th century writer of stories with topics such as ghosts, unrequited love, and murder, however, as a travel writer little was known until now. She offers a rare look at the difficulties of 19th century travel in Mexico and the American Southwest. Here she introduces the Queer Mexicans as she calls them: venomous, "almost human-like, " and edible! These oddities she presents mixed with her personal accounts of ...