Skip to content

Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

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

by Sara Wheeler

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback

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

Description

Modern Library, March 1999. Trade Paperback Trade Paperback. Good. Light edge and cover wear. Unmarked pages. Spot on back cover where sticker was removed. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.
Used - Good
NZ$9.16
NZ$6.64 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 7 to 14 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Colorado's Used Bookstore, Inc. (Colorado, United States)

Details

  • Title Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)
  • Author Sara Wheeler
  • Binding Trade Paperback Trade Paperback
  • Edition Modern Library p
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date March 1999
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 358153
  • 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

About Colorado's Used Bookstore, Inc. Colorado, United States

Biblio member since 2005
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Buy and sell used books

Terms of Sale:

Visa, MasterCard. Returns must be returned to bookstore within 10 days for credit on the books only.

Browse books from Colorado's Used Bookstore, Inc.

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.

From the jacket flap

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.

Categories

Media reviews

"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.