author
Lucio V. Mansilla
1831–1913
A soldier, journalist, diplomat, and storyteller, he turned a life of travel and public service into some of the most vivid prose in nineteenth-century Argentina. He is especially remembered for writing about the Ranquel people with unusual curiosity and detail for his time.
2 Audiobooks
Una Excursión a los Indios Ranqueles - Tomo 1
by Lucio V. Mansilla
Una excursión a los indios ranqueles - Tomo 2
by Lucio V. Mansilla
About the author
Born in Buenos Aires on December 23, 1831, Lucio Victorio Mansilla moved through many worlds over the course of his life: the army, politics, journalism, diplomacy, and literature. That unusually varied career helped shape a writing voice that feels lively, observant, and personal rather than distant or formal.
He is best known today for Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, a work drawn from his journey to Indigenous Ranquel territory in the Argentine interior. The book stands out for its mix of travel writing, conversation, social observation, and reflection, and it remains one of the best-known works in Argentine literature of the period.
Mansilla died in Paris on October 8, 1913. More than a century later, he is still read for the energy of his style and for the way his writing captures the tensions, ambitions, and encounters of nineteenth-century Argentina.