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Chile   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Insight Guide Chile  •   Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  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, $23.99)
  Insight Guide Chile
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, $15.00)
  Travels in a Thin Country, A Journey through Chile
Chile, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Katherine Silver
ANTHOLOGY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
This diverse collection of stories, organized geographically, includes the country's best-known writers, Ariel Dorfman and Pablo Neruda, as well as lesser-known luminaries. This sampling illustrates the diversity of contemporary Chile through the eyes of the country's current generation of writers. (CHI38, $14.95)
  Chile, A Traveler's Literary Companion
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. One Side. 25.5x39 inches. (CHI05, $14.95)
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Chile Map  •   Borch Maps    •  A handy laminated road map of Chile in full color at a scale of 1:2,000,000, with supplementary maps. (CHI71, $10.95)
 
 
Lake District, Araucania: Argentina & Chile  •   Zagier & Urruty Maps    •  This regional map (1:400,00) covers the mid-section of Chile and Argentina from Bariloche across to Puerto Montt and Temuco. (PAT59, $14.95)
 
 
Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego Map  •   ITMB    •  A convenient map of Patagonia -- from the 40th parallel to the southern tip of South America -- at a scale of 1:2,000,000. On the reverse is a detailed map of Tierra del Fuego at a scale of 1:750,000. (PAT19, $12.95)
 
 
Santiago Map  •   ITMB    •  A travel map of Santiago, shown at a scale of 1:12,500. (CHI34, $8.95)
 
 
South American Explorer Chilean Fjords Map  •   Ocean Explorer Maps    •  A handsome map of southern South America (1:4,800,000) with a detailed map of the Chilean Fjords (1:2,200,000). (SAM41, $11.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Culture Smart! Chile  •  Caterina Perrone   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (CHI74, $9.95)
 
 
Footprint Chile Handbook  •  Charlie Nurse   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A general overview of Chile and practical travel detail on where to go and what to do. Essential for the independent traveler, this book is built for the road with sturdy covers and a sewn binding. (CHI31, $25.95)
 
 
Lonely Planet Chile  •   Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide includes a chapter on Easter Island in addition to a comprehensive overview of Chile, its history and culture. (CHI04, $24.99)
 
 
Chilean Wine: The Heritage, a Journey from the Origins of the Vine to the Present  •  Rodrigo Alvarado   • FOOD  •  Alvarado does justice to the long winemaking tradition of Chile in this narrative, which explores the history of Chile's vineyards and wine production. Ideal for anyone on the path to becoming a connoisseur, or interested in gaining a deeper understanding of this long-standing tradition in Chile. (CHI65, $39.95)
 
 
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, $27.95)
 
 
Desert Memories, Journeys Through the Chilean North  •  Ariel Dorfman   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A quest for national history, personal memories, and family origins in the Atacama by the noted playwright, novelist and essayist. The legacy of mining, Pinochet, and the author's own history are woven into this meditative account. (CHI53, $21.00)
 
 
In Patagonia  •  Bruce Chatwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 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)
 
 
My Invented Country  •  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, $13.99)
 
 
Voyage of the Beagle  •  Charles Darwin   • EXPLORATION • 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)
 
 
Gabriela Mistral, Selected Prose and Prose-Poems  •  Stephen Tapscott  •  Gabriela Mistral   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Selected prose by the Chilean Nobel laureate as edited and translated by Stephen Tapscott. Part of the Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series. (CHI16, $19.95)
 
 
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 House of the Spirits  •  Isabel Allende  •  Magda Bogin   • LITERATURE  •  A compulsively readable novel chronicling real and imagined events surrounding the extended Trueba clan from the turn of the 20th century to 1973, much in the spirit of One Hundred Years of Solitude. (CHI02, $7.99)
 
 
Natural Patagonia, Argentina and Chile  •  Marcelo D. Beccaceci   • NATURAL HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  An informative photographic journey through the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife of Patagonia, featuring 120 color photographs, presented in Spanish and English. (PAT22, $24.95)
 
 
A Wildlife Guide to Chile  •  Sharon Chester   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Chester's splendid guide, featuring 120 color plates, covers the wildlife, plants and natural history of Chile from the Atacama Desert and Patagonia to Easter Island and Antarctica. (CHI77, $19.95)
 
 
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  •  With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide. (SAM12, $29.95)
 
 


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