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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library (Paperback))
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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library (Paperback)) Paperback - 1999

by Wheeler, Sara

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An elegant travel writer discovers Chile, the country squeezed in between a vast ocean and running along the longest mountain range on Earth.

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  • Title Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library (Paperback))
  • Author Wheeler, Sara
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-03-16
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0375753656
  • ISBN 9780375753657 / 0375753656
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.79 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects Chile - Description and travel, Wheeler, Sara - Travel - Chile
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99012110
  • Dewey Decimal Code 918.304

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Summary

Squeezed 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 that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Squeezed 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 that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.

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"Notably well written, perceptive, lively and sympathetic.  Sara Wheeler is very well worth reading." --Daily Telegraph

"She is a marvelous writer--funny, elegant and observant.  As a traveling companion, Sara Wheeler is shrewd and
amusing and likeable and well informed . . . not just a good but an outstanding travel writer." --The Oldie

"Always lively and informative, sketching in the history with a light but sure touch . . . she admirably conveys the mood
of contemporary Chile." --The New Statesman

"A gifted writer with a knack for discovering the unexpected . . . Ms. Wheeler is a writer with attitude." --The Hindu

About the author

Sara Wheeler is the author of many books of biography and travel, including Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2011 and Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica was an international bestseller that The New York Times described as "gripping, emotional" and "compelling," and The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle was chosen as Book of the Year by Michael Palin and Will Self, among others. Wheeler lives in London.