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CHILE & ARGENTINA: THE LAKE DISTRICT
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Around Cape Horn
• Irving Johnson
EXPLORATION •
1986 •
DVD
In this favorite film, Captain Irving Johnson memorably narrates documentary footage of his voyage as a young man aboard the bark Peking in 1929, including a remarkable sequence about the ship rounding the Horn in a storm. Talk about bad weather! 37 minutes. DVD
(PAT68, $29.95) |
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Birds of Chile
• Alvaro Jaramillo
FIELD GUIDE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
A compact, comprehensive guide to 473 species in the Princeton Field Guide series with illustrations by David Beadle and Peter Burke, detailed range maps and condensed descriptive information, integrated on facing pages for easy reference in the field. It includes the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Jaramillo, a biologist born in Chile and raised in Toronto, leads birding trips throughout the Americas. A lifelong birder, he and Burke previously collaborated on a guide to the blackbirds of the Americas.
(CHI50, $29.95) |
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Far Away and Long Ago
• W.H. Hudson
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2006 •
PAPER
• 338 PAGES
Written in 1917, Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are enhanced by his own lively curiosity and observations of the landscapes, birds and nature of Argentina.
(SAM11, $34.95) |
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The Far Side of the World
• Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 366 PAGES
This tale, set in 1812, features a trip around Cape Horn, as Stephen Maturin, Patrick O'Brian's wonderful opium-addicted naturalist, explores the New World with his pal Jack Aubrey. If you haven't yet been introduced to O'Brian's vivid portraits of Nelson's British Navy, here's your chance to dip into this fine series, with a book featuring evocative descriptions of Patagonian wildlife and features of the natural environment. A great read (and a great reread for O'Brian fans).
(SAM01, $14.95) |
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Footprint Patagonia
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• Christabelle Dilks
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
HARD COVER
• 25 PAGES
A compact, comprehensive guide in the popular British series, Footprint Patagonia covers both the history, nature and culture of the region and practical travel details.
(PAT77, $24.95) |
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The House of the Spirits
• Isabel Allende
• Magda Bogin
LITERATURE •
1993 •
PAPER
• 433 PAGES
A remarkably imagined tale of four generations, much in the spirit of Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, centered on a land-owning tyrant, and his wife, daughter and grandchild. It's the first novel by Allende -- a cousin of Salvador Allende, the leader killed by Pinochet -- a sprawling work of real and imagined events that follows the extended Trueba clan from the turn of the 20th century to 1973.
(CHI02, $7.99) |
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Idle Days in Patagonia
• W.H. Hudson
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2005 •
PAPER
• 155 PAGES
A handsome reprint of Hudson's classic 1893 account of life, nature and adventure in southern South America. It's a beguiling tale, written long after the fact, combining history and nature, reflection, and incident. With paintings and drawings by Alfred Hartley and J. Smit.
(PAT27, $22.00) |
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My Invented Country
• Isabel Allende
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2004 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
In this extended essay, 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 Chilean president (and her uncle) Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. Called forth by the events of September 11, 2001, the book reflects Allende's acknowledgment of the United States as home. It's also a thoughtful consideration of Chile and the Chilean character.
(CHI52, $13.99) |
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Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego Map
• ITMB
2011 •
MAP
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. One Side. 39x27 inches.
(PAT19, $12.95) |
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Smithsonian Handbook: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
• Mark Carwardine
FIELD GUIDE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
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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Soldiers in a Narrow Land, The Pinochet Regime in Chile
• Mary Helen Spooner
HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 410 PAGES
A correspondent based in Chile during the Pinochet years, Spooner interviewed ordinary people, military and opposition leaders for this social history. It's a balanced account, documenting the censorship, violence and appeal of the 16-year dictatorship. The book includes an analysis of the impact of the free market economy on Chilean society. Updated with a new preface on Chile in the 1990s.
(CHI25, $29.95) |
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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) |
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The Uttermost Part of the Earth
• Lucas Bridges
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2007 •
HARD COVER
• 558 PAGES
In this beloved memoir, first published in 1947, Bridges writes of the early settlers, explorers and the ways of the Yagan and Ona peoples who populated the wild shores of Tierra del Fuego at the turn of the century. It's a history of the region and a down-to-earth record of a time and place. With five maps, 97 archival photographs and printed end papers.
(PAT04, $40.00) |
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Where the Earth Ends, A Journey Beyond Patagonia
• John Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 401 PAGES
A spirited tale of adventures in the southern tip of South America, south from the Pampas and Patagonia to Punta Arenas, the Beagle Channel, Ushuaia -- and Antarctica. Often mixing it up with Chatwin's ghost, Harrison interweaves history, anecdote, personality and discovery with gusto.
(PAT57, $15.95) |
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