Chile

Travels In A Thin Country

Sara Wheeler

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Little, Brown and Company
25 January 2007

Travel & holiday; Travel writing

The most authorative 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, form the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. This is Sara Wheeler's account of a six-month odyssey which included Christmas Day at 13,000 feet with a llama sandwich, a sex hotel in Santiago and a trip round Cape Horn delivering a coffin. Eloquent, astute and amusing, CHILE: TRAVELS IN A THIN COUNTRY confirms Sara Wheeler's place in the front rank of today's travel writers.

By: Sara Wheeler
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780349120010
ISBN 10: 0349120013
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 25 January 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Chile: Travels In A Thin Country

lively and sympathetic...Sara Wheeler is very well worth reading. - DAILY TELEGRAPH a perceptive and entertaining account. - NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY a thorougly enjoyable book with plenty of humour. - TODAY Chance meetings and planned visits are described with enough imagery and dialogue to make you pack your rucksack before finishing the book. - NORTHERN ECHO