Chile: Travels In A Thin Country
Travels in a Thin Country
$28.61
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2007
Summary
The most authoritative 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, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. This is Sara Wheeler’s account of a six…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349120010 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349120013 |
| Author: | Sara Wheeler |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 133mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
lively and sympathetic…Sara Wheeler is very well worth reading. - DAILY TELEGRAPH
a perceptive and entertaining account. - NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETYa thorougly enjoyable book with plenty of humour. - TODAYChance meetings and planned visits are described with enough imagery and dialogue to make you pack your rucksack before finishing the book. - NORTHERN ECHOAbout The Author
Sara Wheeler
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.
Author Location: London, NW3
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