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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)
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by Sara Wheeler
Sales Rank: 93458
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List Price: $13.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
Published by: Modern Library; Modern Lib edition March 16, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0375753656
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0375753657
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 9.1 ounces
Product Review
"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
Product Description
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.
Reader Reviews
I disagree with the other reviewer's comments who felt he had to slog through the book waiting for it to payoff. I thoroughly enjoyed Sara Wheeler's writing on Chile and reccomend this book to anyone who has traveled to Chile or is contemplating a trip. I started reading her book at the end of a 2-week adventure in Chile and many of her comments and thoughts resonated with my own experiences in Chile. I hated to leave the country and its beauty behind, but her book allowed me to retain and relive the magic of my own trip for another week+ as I savored her writing.
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