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Chile: The Lake District & Patagonia   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Insight Guide Chile  •   Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 380 PAGES
This glossy guide is a full-color introduction to the land, people and history of Chile, written by a team of experts. Brief background essays highlight important topics, and there is some practical travel information interspersed throughout. (CHI03, $23.95)
  Insight Guide Chile
Natural Patagonia, Argentina and Chile  •  Marcelo D. Beccaceci
NATURAL HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 124 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
An informative, photographic journey through the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife of Patagonia, featuring 120 color photographs. With text in Spanish and English. (PAT22, $24.95)
  Natural Patagonia, Argentina and Chile
In Patagonia  •  Bruce Chatwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1989 •  PAPER  • 204 PAGES • FAVORITE
A masterpiece of travel, history and adventure. This award-winning book captures the spirit of the land, history, wildlife and people of Patagonia. There's no travel writer as engaging, insightful and just plain wonderful as Bruce Chatwin. (PAT01, $15.00)
  In Patagonia
Travels in a Thin Country, a Journey through Chile  •  Sara Wheeler
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES
An inspired writer, British author Sarah Wheeler deploys her wit, intelligence and powerful investigative skills on the Republic of Chile, where she traveled in 1991. Excellent reading. (CHI06, $13.95)
  Travels in a Thin Country, a Journey through Chile
Chile Map  •   Auto Mapa
2005 •  MAP
A road and travel map of Chile, including bordering regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru at a scale 1:2,250,000. Divided in sections to show the most detail of long and skinny Chile, this excellent map also includes an inset of the major routes in and out of Santiago. (CHI05, $14.95)
  Chile Map
 

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Lake District, Araucania: Argentina & Chile  •   Zagier & Urruty Maps    •  A full color traveler's map of mid-section of Chile and Argentina with a focus on the popular region from Bariloche across to Puerto Montt. At a scale of 1:400,000 with roads, relief and attractions. (PAT59, $14.95)
 
 
Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego Map  •   Auto Mapa    •  Beautifully detailed, this bestselling physical relief map shows Tierra del Fuego at a scale of 1:1,000,000 scale with an overview of southern South America, the Valdes Peninsula and national parks along with street plans for Ushuaia, Río Gallegos, Puerto Madryn, Bariloche, Trelew and Comodoro Rivadavia. (PAT07, $14.95)
 
 
Santiago Map  •   ITMB    •  A travel map of Santiago, shown at a scale of 1:12,500. (CHI34, $8.95)
 
 
Torres del Paine Map  •   Zagier & Urruty Maps    •  This detailed topographic map includes trekking routes, refuges and color illustrations. (CHI12, $14.95)
 
 
Chile in Focus  •  Nick Caistor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Authoritative and up-to-date, this slim guide focuses on the history of Chile, its cultural heritage and the political, environmental and economic challenges of the post-Pinochet era. With maps, photographs and some travel information. (CHI35, $12.95)
 
 
Walking  •  Henry David Thoreau   • REFERENCE  •  You may want to carry this small volume in your daypack for inspiration. In it, Thoreau offers his meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel. (WLK04, $9.95)
 
 
Soldiers in a Narrow Land, The Pinochet Regime in Chile  •  Mary Helen Spooner   • HISTORY  •  A history of Chile under Pinochet (1973-1988) based on wide-ranging interviews with ordinary people, military men and opposition leaders. It's a balanced account, documenting the censorship and violence but also the appeal of the dictatorship. (CHI25, $25.95)
 
 
My Invented Country, A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile  •  Isabel Allende   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Novelist Allende ruminates on her upbringing in Chile, interweaving memories of South America with her feelings for the United States, where she has lived since the assassination of her uncle, Chilean president Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973. (CHI52, $13.95)
 
 
Rounding the Horn  •  Dallas Murphy   • EXPLORATION  •  A sailor at heart, Dallas Murphy gets himself down to Ushuaia, embarks a sturdy vessel and heads out to experience the wind and weather of Tierra del Fuego. In his informative account, Dallas interweaves plenty of history, a little rather naive politics and the story of his own adventures. (PAT65, $15.00)
 
 
Voyage of the Beagle  •  Charles Darwin   • EXPLORATION • BEST SELLER • FAVORITE  •  The wide-eyed tale of a young man on a five-year voyage that changed his life -- and our way of thinking about the world. First published in 1839, it's still a marvelous introduction to the wildlife, nature and allure of South America. (GPS02, $12.95)
 
 
Voyaging, Southward from the Strait of Magellan  •  Rockwell Kent   • EXPLORATION  •  An illustrated account of Rockwell's foolhardy voyage with a madman through magnificent Tierra del Fuego in a jury-rigged lifeboat. Both the text and striking woodcut illustrations communicate this dangerous landscape's dynamic character. (CHI29, $19.95)
 
 
What Am I Doing Here?  •  Bruce Chatwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A delightful collection of essays by one of our favorite travel writers, capturing the allure of the land and its wildlife and history. Includes a great chapter on his visit to Chiloe Island. (PAT02, $16.00)
 
 
Chile, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Katherine Silver   • ANTHOLOGY  •  These choice stories introduce both the country and a host of contemporary writers. (CHI38, $14.95)
 
 
The Walker's Literary Companion  •  Robert Gilbert  •  Anne Wallace  •  Jeffrey Robinson   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A diverse sampling of literature on the pleasures of walking, representing philosophers, naturalists, outcasts, athletes and intellectuals from Plato to Frank O'Hara. (WLK08, $24.00)
 
 
Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World  •  Francisco Coloane  •  David A. Petreman   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of sixteen short stories, by the noted Chilean author, capturing the characteristically rugged landscape of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. (CHI27, $16.00)
 
 
Five Decades, Poems 1925-1970  •  Pablo Neruda   • LITERATURE  •  A bilingual edition of 138 poems by the great Pablo Neruda, drawn from his entire career. Neruda is the quintessential South American poet: lyrical, engaging, and bristling with life. (CHI10, $15.00)
 
 
Night Flight  •  Antoine de Saint Exupery   • LITERATURE  •  Saint Exupery captures the thrill and mystery of early flight in this tale of a pilot alone in a storm over the Andes en route to Buenos Aires. (PAT09, $12.00)
 
 
The Far Side of the World  •  Patrick O'Brian   • LITERATURE  •  O'Brian takes readers on an adventure around Cape Horn in this enthralling Aubrey and Maturin tale, featuring evocative descriptions of the wildlife of Patagonia and Galapagos and a vivid portrait of Nelson's British Navy. (SAM01, $13.95)
 
 
Patagonia, The Last Wilderness  •  Daniel Rivademar   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An illustrated portrait of Patagonia, featuring gorgeous color photographs and brief accompanying text on the natural history of the region. (PAT20, $39.95)
 
 
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth  •  Maurice Krafft   • NATURAL HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT  •  This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)
 
 
Birds of Chile  •  Alvaro Jaramillo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This compact, comprehensive guide with superb color plates also includes Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. (CHI50, $29.95)
 
 
Birds of Southern South America & Antarctica  •  Martin D. la Pena  •  Maurice Rumboll   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact regional guide with color plates, range maps and brief descriptions. (SAM12, $29.95)
 
 
Seabirds of the World, A Photographic Guide  •  Peter Harrison   • FIELD GUIDE • OUT OF PRINT  •  A definitive, compact guide to all the world's seabirds, featuring 740 photographs. (FG16, $29.95)
 
 
Smithsonian Handbook: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises  •  Mark Carwardine   • FIELD GUIDE  •  In the trademark, graphic Eyewitness style, this sturdy guidebook colorfully describes the world's cetaceans with numerous illustrations, range maps, fluke drawings and a few paragraphs on each species. (FG02, $20.00)
 
 


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