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Chile: Travels In A Thin Country

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Chile: Travels In A Thin Country
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sara Wheeler
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128
Category/GenreTravel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9780349120010
ClassificationsDewey:918.30466
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Abacus
Publication Date 7 December 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction. 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.

Author Biography

Sara Wheeler read classics and modern languages at Oxford, and for the past fifteen years has been working as a writer and editor. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed Terra Incognita: travels in Antartica, and has contributed to a wide range of newspapers, magazines and radio programmes.

Reviews

'She is a marvellous writer - funny, elegant and observant, with an eye for the unusual turn of phrase. As a travelling companion Sara Wheeler is shrewd and amusing and likeable and well-informed' THE OLDIE 'Notably well-written, perceptive, lively and sympathetic. Very well worth reading' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Always lively and informative ... a perceptive and entertaining account' NEW STATESMAN