Expediciones en la Patagonia Occidental
Subtitle: hacia la carretera austral
By: Juan Augusto Grosse ; traducción del alemán, Lydia Miquel.
Publisher: Editorial Andrés Bello
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Santiago de Chile
Language: spa
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Grosse I., Juan Augusto -- Travel -- Chile -- Aisén (Province); Grosse I., Juan Augusto -- Diaries.; Explorers -- Chile -- Biography.; Aisén (Chile : Province) -- Discovery and exploration.; Aisén (Chile : Province) -- Description and travel.
Genres: Diaries.; Biography.
Description: "Collection of notes written by Juan A. Grosse, a young German colonist who, from 1940-58, traveled the islands of the Province of Aysén, explored the Patagonian Icefields, and ventured onto numerous Patagonian streams. He is credited with being one of the inspirational pioneers for the construction of the Carretera Austral"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Spanish translation of diaries originally written in German.