Patagonia
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: Chris Moss.
Series: Landscapes of the imagination
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780195342499
Subjects: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel; Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The last days of Shorr : Patagonia's indigenous myths; title: The invention of Patagonia : Magellan and Drake; title: Port Famine : Sarmiento de Gamboa; title: The English mariners : Cavendish, Davis, Byron; title: Unreal cities : founding fathers and fantasists; title: Sounding the soul : Fitzroy, Darwin and Jemmy Button; title: Y wladfa : the Welsh in Patagonia; title: King of Patagonia : Orllie Antoine and the Araucanos; title: Mystical twitcher : W. H. Hudson; title: Patagonia conquered, 1870-1922; title: Taming the wind : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; title: Reclaiming territory : Latin American narratives; title: Minimal stories : film and music in Patagonia; title: Chatwin, Theroux and the travel writers.