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Travels in a thin country: Journey Through Chile, Sara Wheeler, Used; Good Book
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- 9780316909099
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- Publication Name
- Travels in a thin country: Journey Through Chile
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Travels in a Thin Country: Journey Through Chile
- Item Height
- 240mm
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Topic
- Travel Writing
- Item Width
- 155mm
- Item Weight
- 586g
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself easily to maps. Nor, as Sara Wheeler found out, does it easily lend itself to a lone woman with two carpetbags who wishes to travel from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Yet, despite bureaucratic, geographic and climatic setbacks, Sara Wheeler managed to complete that journey in six months, discovering en route a country that is quite extraordinarily diverse. This is an account of an odyssey which included Christmas Day spent with a llama sandwich on the Tropic of Capricorn at 13,000 feet, a sex hotel in the capital, four days wedged aboard a cargo boat, a wet tent and and high street bank in Patagonia. In Santiago she talked her way into the prisons, in Tierra del Fuego she hitched a lift around Cape Horn on a supply boat delivering a coffin, and in the high Andes she lived on a Vedic commune. From Easter in the slums to an eventful week on Robinson Crusoe Island, the author picks her way through the complex reality of South American Catholicism and the fragile peace of a newly-born democracy. She also drinks a lot of wine. This improbable ribbon of land has been home to Andean tribes who remain the most scientifically neglected people in the world; it has been conquered by conquistadores, pillaged by Sir Francis Drake (no hero in Chile), exploited by foreign imperialists, blighted by the Panama Canal, governed by the world's first democratically-elected Marxist president and stamped upon by one of this century's most reviled dictators. And, as Sara Wheeler discovered, they have all left their mark on today's Chile - an extravagantly complex country, hidden behind the Andes and stretching to the end of the world. Other work by the author includes An Island Apart .
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Travels in a Thin Country: Journey Through Chile
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Hardcover
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English
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Travel Writing
Publication Year
1994
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304 Pages
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240mm
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155mm
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586g
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