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In Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book (a designation Chatwin disliked), a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes ...
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Fodor's Chile
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Chile is an increasingly popular destination among UK tourists, with the number of visitors tripling in the last ten years. Chile has an amazing diversity of landscapes, from the Atacama desert (the driest place on Earth) in the North through the glorious beaches of the Central Coast, down to the breathtaking glaciers, fjords and lakes in the ...
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In Patagonia: 4
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Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book (a designation Chatwin disliked), a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes ...
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Mischief in Patagonia
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Patagonia Revisited
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Bruce Chatwin
Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a contry of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. It immediately lodged itself in the imagination as a metaphor for "the ultimate", the point beyond which one could not go. In this book, Chatwin and Theroux join forces to explores the instances in which the ...
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Moon Handbooks Patagonia
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Wayne Bernhardson
Seasoned travel writer Wayne Berhardson covers the best sights and adventures that Patagonia has to offer, from visiting Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, to viewing the jagged peaks of Cuernos del Paine and hiking on Argentina's Moreno Glacier. Bernhardson also offers unique trip strategies including The Andean Lakes Loop and The natural ...
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Natural Patagonia/Patagonia Natural: Argentina & Chile
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Marcelo D Beccaceci, Victoria Lichtschein (Prologue by)
Readers take a panoramic journey in this book through legendary Patagonia, the southernmost region of the Americas and one of the world's most magnificent and varied landscapes. The imagery and wildlife astound.
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Enduring Patagonia
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Gregory Crouch
Enduring Patagonia, " with its exhilarating yet poetic voice and extraordinary color photos, chronicles one man's obsession with the wind-swept mountains and steppes of this strange part of the world made famous by Magellan and Darwin.
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Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal
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Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia
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Lonely Planet Trekking in the Patagonian Andes: Walking Guide
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Clem Lindenmayer
A comprehensive trekking guide, this book includes over 28 detailed route descriptions, 27 trekking maps, an illustrated flora and fauna section, as well as a language and health section.
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To the Edge of the World
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Harry Thompson
In this seafaring trilogy, the author explores the lives of Captain Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin, their friendship, and the historical voyage to the Galapagos Islands that ultimately drove them apart.
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Nowhere is a place : travels in Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Jeff Gnass
A selection of writings on Patagonia by the noted travel writers Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux.
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Idle Days in Patagonia
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W H Hudson
William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. He was born in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both ...
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Attending marvels; a Patagonian journal
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George Gaylord Simpson
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Moon Handbooks Patagonia: Including the Falkland Islands
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Wayne Bernhardson
Covers Chilean and Argentine Patagonia, as well as the Falkland Islands. This book highlights a range of diverse attractions, from Andean summits and dense temperate forests to boundless Patagonian steppes, a scenic coastline that stretches into the sub-Antarctic, wildlife-rich South Atlantic Islands, and sophisticated coverage of Santiago de ...
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At Home with the Patagonians
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George Musters
'One day, without anyone expecting it, we saw a giant ...' Antonio Piggafetta's description of the native Patagonian Indians, the Teheulche, stirred the consciousness of the world's explorers, from Magellan to de Bougainville, to Darwin's acclaimed Beagle expedition. It was in fact Darwin's account of his experiences in Patagonia's terra incognita ...
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Different Sea
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Claudio Magris
Enrico has always lived in the shadow of his gifted friend Carlo, a bond made all the stronger by Carlo's suicide at the age of 23. In portraying Enrico's life, Magris depicts a world in chaos, that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire shaken by the Great War. By the author of "Danube".
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Enduring Patagonia
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Gregory Couch, Gregory Crouch
A veteran climber and journalist, Crouch endures vicious weather, jagged mountains, and the depths of his own fears as he ventures across Patagonia.
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Patagonia: Windswept Land of the South
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Roger Perry
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Wild Shores of Patagonia: The Valdes Peninsula and Punta Tombo
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Jasmine Rossi
Patagonia, on the southern tip of South America, is one of the world's greatest wildlife habitats. This book is an illustrated window on the life-and-death struggles of the wild animals that live there, including photographs of killer whales, elephant seals, penguins and albatrosses.
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Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World
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Francisco Coloane
"These stories, well translated from the Spanish, describe the severe beauty and cruelty of southern Chile--cold, inhospitable, full of craggy, treacherous channels--the end of the world. As in Jack London's stories, the environment forms a crucible in which man's true--or perhaps worst--nature is revealed: two stranded lighthouse keepers fight ...
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Maritime Archaeology and Social Relations: British Action in the Southern Hemisphere
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Virginia Dellino-Musgrave
Global processes such as capitalism and colonialism are influenced by local forces and manifested in events at a local level. The study of local practices can thus provide new insights into broader social relations. This book analyses British action at the end of the 18th century in the Southern hemisphere. Two Royal Navy ships, one off the ...
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Walking on eggs : discovering eggs and embryos of giant dinosaurs
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Luis Chiappe, Lowell Dingus
Doctors Chiappe and Dingus led the research team which, on a field trip to the Patagonian desert in South America in 1997, came across an extraordinary palaeontological coup: the discovery of a kind of dinosaur "maternity ward", a field of eggs 80 million years old, some of which were still unhatched. Then, on a later expedition, they found a ...
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An Englishman in Patagonia
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John Pilkington
When John Pilkington journeyed through Patagonia, he found that being Patagonian is more a matter of how you feel than where you live. Patagonians are resolute dreamers, and as he meets the Welsh and Scottish settlers, the Nazi refugees and the hippy exiles he meditates on what it is that drives people to live and travel in such inhospitable ...
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