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PATAGONIA REVISITED
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| By: |
Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£4.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330326732 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330326735 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
8 October, 1993 |
| Pages: |
64 |
| Description: |
Explores the instances in which the "final capes of exile" have affected the literary imagination, and tracks down some of the extraordinary travellers to Patagonia, from W.H. Hudson, to Captain Joshua Slocum and Butch Cassidy. Paul Theroux has won the Whitbread Literary Award. |
| Synopsis: |
Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a country of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. It immediately lodged itself in the imagination as a metaphor for "the ultimate", the point beyond which one could not go. In this book, Chatwin and Theroux join forces to explores the instances in which the "final capes of exile" have affected the literary imagination, and to track down some of the extraordinary travellers, past and present, from W.H. Hudson, to Captain Joshua Slocum and Butch Cassidy. Paul Theroux has won the Whitbread Literary Award. This book had its origins in an entertainment the writers gave for The Royal Geographical Society, at a time when Theroux was following Chatwin's "In Patagonia" with "The Old Patagonian Express". |
| Illustrations: |
b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |