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Chile
Sara Wheeler
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Description for Chile
Paperback. The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349120010
SKU
V9780349120010
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Sara Wheeler
Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Chile: Travels in a Thin Country,Evia: An Island Apart and The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, which was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley ... Read more
Reviews for Chile
lively and sympathetic...Sara Wheeler is very well worth reading.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
a perceptive and entertaining account.
NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY
a thorougly enjoyable book with plenty of humour.
TODAY
Chance meetings and planned visits are described with enough imagery and dialogue to make you pack your rucksack before finishing the book.
NORTHERN ECHO ... Read more
DAILY TELEGRAPH
a perceptive and entertaining account.
NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY
a thorougly enjoyable book with plenty of humour.
TODAY
Chance meetings and planned visits are described with enough imagery and dialogue to make you pack your rucksack before finishing the book.
NORTHERN ECHO ... Read more