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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/WL2625. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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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) |
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Night Flight
Antoine de Saint Exupery
LITERATURE
1986
PAPER
87 PAGES
A pilot alone in a storm over the Andes en route from Punta Arenas to Buenos Aires. In this wonderfully evocative novella, based on true-life experience, de Saint Exupery captures the thrill of early flight and the courage of the pilots. De Saint Exupery pioneered the first regular postal routes in South America and the Sahara in the 1920s.
(PAT09, $12.00) |
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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) |
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Chile Map
Auto Mapa
A road and travel map of Chile, including bordering regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru at a scale 1:2,250,000.
(CHI05, $14.95) |
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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) |
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Insight Guide Chile
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This glossy guide provides a full-color introduction by a team of experts to the land, people, history and attractions of Chile. Brief background essays highlight important topics; with many local and regional maps.
(CHI03, $23.99) |
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Moon Handbook Patagonia
Wayne Bernhardson
GUIDEBOOK
This practical guide covers where to go and what to do in southern South America from Puerto Montt and the Lake District to Perito Moreno, Torres del Paine and Tierra del Fuego.
(PAT73, $21.95) |
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The Complete Whitewater Rafter
Jeff Bennett
REFERENCE
A popular, practical guide to whitewater rafting, with information on preparing for your trip, choosing equipment, safety and rescue, the history of rafting, as well as introductions to water currents and rapid classifications.
(OCE59, $17.95) |
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Trekking in the Patagonian Andes
Carolyn McCarthy
GUIDEBOOK
With trail maps and route descriptions of walks and treks throughout Patagonia, including Torres del Paine and Glacier National Park.
(PAT12, $24.99) |
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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) |
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Idle Days in Patagonia
W.H. Hudson
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A handsome reprint of Hudson's classic 1893 account of life, nature and adventure in southern South America, with paintings and drawings by Alfred Hartley and J. Smit.
(PAT27, $22.00) |
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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) |
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The Whispering Land
Gerald Durrell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Durrell's sparkling account of an eight-month jaunt on the trail of fur seals, guanaco, parrots and other Patagonian marvels.
(PAT13, $14.00) |
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Travels in a Thin Country, A Journey through Chile
Sara Wheeler
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
British author Sarah Wheeler deploys her wit, intelligence and powerful investigative skills on the Republic of Chile in this insightful travelogue.
(CHI06, $15.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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