Chile: Travels In A Thin Country

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.

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.

'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