Patagonia & Tierra del Fuego

by Zagier & Urruty Maps

2004
MAP

A colorful map of the popular areas of Parque Nacional Los Glaciares at a scale of 1:230,000, providing an overview of the area and highlighting points of interest. (PAT58, $14.95)

Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego Map

by ITMB

2011
MAP

A convenient map of all Patagonia (1:2,000,000) with a more detailed map of Tierra del Fuego on the reverse. (PAT19, $12.95)

South American Explorer Chilean Fjords Map

by Ocean Explorer Maps

2002
MAP

A handsome map of southern South America (1:4,800,000) with a detailed map of the Chilean Fjords (1:2,200,000) on the reverse. Includes Santiago and Buenos Aires. (SAM41, $11.95)

Torres del Paine Map

by Zagier & Urruty Maps

2008
MAP

This detailed walking map (1:80,000) includes trekking routes, refuges and color topography. (CHI12, $14.95)

Footprint Patagonia

by | Christabelle Dilks

GUIDEBOOK
2009
HARD COVER
25 PAGES

This compact, practical guide in the popular British series includes an overview of the history, nature and culture of the region. (PAT77, $24.95)

Insight Guide Chile

by Insight Guides

GUIDEBOOK
2009
PAPER
380 PAGES

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)

Lonely Planet Buenos Aires

by Lonely Planet

GUIDEBOOK
2011
PAPER
256 PAGES

The best of Buenos Aires is included in this practical guide, along with a pullout map and insider recommendations on shopping, eating, sleeping and day trips. (ARG10, $19.99)

Trekking in the Patagonian Andes

by Carolyn McCarthy

GUIDEBOOK
2009
PAPER
308 PAGES

With trail maps and route descriptions of walks and treks throughout Patagonia, including Torres del Paine and Glacier National Park. (PAT12, $24.99)

Patagonia, A Cultural History

by Chris Moss

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2008
HARD COVER
328 PAGES

A journalist with the Buenos Aires Herald, Moss follows a colorful cast of characters -- from Magellan and Darwin to mad kings, gauchos, and Nazi fugitives -- in this vivid overview of the culture and history of Patagonia. (PAT81, $25.00)

Around Cape Horn

by Irving Johnson

EXPLORATION
1986
DVD

Captain Irving Johnson memorably narrates this documentary of his 1929 voyage as a young man aboard the Peking, featuring a remarkable sequence about the ship rounding the Horn in a storm. Talk about bad weather! (PAT68, $29.95)

Cape Horn

by Felix Riesenberg | William A. Briesemeister

EXPLORATION
1985
HARD COVER
450 PAGES

Magellan, Drake and Darwin are all covered in Captain Riesenberg's lively tale of exploration and discovery, first publsihed in 1939. A master mariner, Reisenberg draws on his own long association with seafaring and the sea. (PAT10, $39.95)

Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness

by Peter Matthiessen

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1987
PAPER
280 PAGES
FAVORITE

Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego. (SAM02, $17.00)

Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America

by Eric Simons

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2010
PAPER
304 PAGES

Simons captures the exuberance and wide-eyed wonder of Darwin's adventures in South America in this refreshingly irreverent account. (SAF233, $14.95)

Far Away and Long Ago

by W.H. Hudson

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2006
PAPER
338 PAGES

Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are rich with descriptions of the landscapes, birds and nature of Argentina. (SAM11, $34.95)

Idle Days in Patagonia

by 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, with paintings and drawings by Alfred Hartley and J. Smit. (PAT27, $22.00)

Rounding the Horn

by Dallas Murphy

EXPLORATION
2005
PAPER
358 PAGES

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, $18.00)

The Uttermost Part of the Earth

by Lucas Bridges

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2007
HARD COVER
558 PAGES

This beloved memoir of Harberton estancia and early settlers, explorers and ways of the Yagan and Ona peoples who once populated the wild shores of Tierra del Fuego is a favorite, back in print with an introduction by Natalie Goodall. (PAT04, $40.00)

Travels in a Thin Country, A Journey through Chile

by Sara Wheeler

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1996
PAPER
304 PAGES

British author Sarah Wheeler deploys her wit, intelligence and powerful investigative skills on the Republic of Chile in this insightful travelogue. (CHI06, $15.00)

Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard H. Dana

EXPLORATION
1986
PAPER
572 PAGES

The visceral, gripping account of life at sea during an 1838 voyage from Boston to California that took seaman Richard H. Dana around Cape Horn. (PAT06, $16.00)

Voyaging, Southward from the Strait of Magellan

by Rockwell Kent

EXPLORATION
2000
PAPER
208 PAGES

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)

Where the Earth Ends, A Journey Beyond Patagonia

by 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. (PAT57, $15.95)

Chile, A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Katherine Silver

LITERATURE
2003
PAPER
256 PAGES

These choice stories introduce both the country and a host of contemporary writers. (CHI38, $14.95)

Night Flight

by Antoine de Saint Exupery

LITERATURE
1986
PAPER
87 PAGES

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)

Tierra del Fuego

by Francisco Coloane

LITERATURE
2008
PAPER
176 PAGES

Born in Chiloe in the south of Chile, Coloane (1910-2000) draws on the history of the land in this collection of nine spell-binding tales. (PAT80, $14.95)

Patagonia, Nature's Last Frontier

by Marcos Zimmerman | Tomas Eloy Martinez

NATURAL HISTORY
2008
HARD COVER
160 PAGES

The Argentine novelist Tomas Eloy Martinez (Santa Evita) provides the astute commentary for this collection of color photographs of Patagonia's windswept interiors, wild coast, mountains, glaciers and wildlife. (PAT82, $49.95)

A Wildlife Guide to Chile

by Sharon Chester

FIELD GUIDE
2008
PAPER
392 PAGES

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

by Alvaro Jaramillo

FIELD GUIDE
2003
PAPER
240 PAGES

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

by Martin D. la Pena | Maurice Rumboll

FIELD GUIDE
2001
PAPER
224 PAGES

With color plates, range maps and brief descriptions, this is a compact regional guide. (SAM12, $29.95)

Smithsonian Handbook: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises

by 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)