Chile: Travels In A Thin Country Chile: Travels In A Thin Country

Chile: Travels In A Thin Country

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Publisher Description

Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica.

This is Sara Wheeler's account of a six-month odyssey which included Christmas Day at 13,000 feet with a llama sandwich, a sex hotel in Santiago and a trip round Cape Horn delivering a coffin. Eloquent, astute and amusing, CHILE: TRAVELS IN A THIN COUNTRY confirms Sara Wheeler's place in the front rank of today's travel writers.

GENRE
Travel & Adventure
RELEASED
2019
April 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Little, Brown Book Group
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

EdLewis2 ,

Fascinating Read

I have some familiarity with Chile having traveled about Santiago and spent some time in the Far South. This book brought back pleasant memories along with the reintroduction to the hardships of the Allende and Pinochet regimes. This book is a must read for anyone contemplating a visit. Yes, we are headed back to the Far South this coming spring (November). Thank you Sara for your insightful travelogue.

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