Patagonia: A Cultural History (Landscapes of the Imagination)

Signal Books Ltd

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UPC:
9781904955382
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
7/4/2008
Author:
Chris Moss
Language:
english
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Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small tribes of hunter-gatherers and roaming nomads when Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520. A fat...