\"The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb\'s Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as told by Himself.\" The Banda Oriental del Uruguay was the name of the South American territories east of the Uruguay River and north of Río de la Plata that today cover modern Uruguay, the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, and part of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Condition: Rubbing to the edges of the covers. Significant foxing to the edges and to the textblock (which is free of annotations or other markings).