Patagonia
Subtitle: a Cultural History
Series: Landscapes of the Imagination, 8; Landscapes of the Imagination, 8
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Luton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781908493354; 9781904955382
Subjects: Description and travel; History; Descriptions et voyages; Histoire; HISTORY; TRAVEL; General; Travel
Description: Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small tribes of hunter-gatherers and roaming nomads when Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520. A fat ...
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Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of Patagonia; Introduction; Geographical Patagonia: Between Extremes; European Patagonia: A Tall Story; Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia; Literary Patagonia; Tourism's New Fictions; Patagonia; The Last Days of Shorr: Patagonia's Indigenous Myths; The Steppe Lands: the Tehuelche; Creation Myths; Death and Danger; Nature and Nurture; Ice and Fire: the Natives of Tierra del Fuego; In the Frozen Forests; On Shore: the Selknam; Family Ties; Kloketen Myths; Towards Cape Horn: the Yahgan.; title: Fjords and Sounds: the Halakwalup and the ChonosUnder the Volcanoes: the Mapuche Nation; At Peace Only With the Land; Bogey-men, Boats and Battles; Postscript: Genocide; The Invention of Patagonia: Magellan and Drake; Ferdinand Magellan: Puerto San Julián; Naming the Giants; San Julián Revisited: Francis Drake; To the South; Port Famine: Sarmiento de Gamboa; Nombre de Jesús and Rey Felipe; Port Famine; The English Mariners: Cavendish, Davis, Byron; Thomas Cavendish and John Davis; Calamity in the Chilean Archipelago: John Byron; The Mutineers; Byron's Distresses; Fantasy Islands.; title: Filling in the GapsUnreal Cities: Founding Fathers and Fantasists; City of the Caesars; The El Dorado Complex; Thomas Falkner; Carmen de Patagones; Sounding the Soul: FitzRoy, Darwin and Jemmy Button; Puerto San Julián; First Voyage 1826-30; Robert FitzRoy; The Fuegians in England; Second Voyage 1832-36; Philos and FitzRoy; First Visit to Patagonia; Jemmy Goes Home; Patagonia Again; The Long Wake; Other Tombs; Y Wladfa: The Welsh in Patagonia; The "Gwladfa" Project; Glaniad: the Landing; Native Know-how; Expansion and Exploration; Becoming a Minority; Mythologies and Miscreants.; title: Demythologizers and DetractorsKing of Patagonia: Orllie Antoine and the Araucanos; Kingdom Come; The Royal Line; The "Pacification"; Mystical Twitcher: W.H. Hudson; The Boy and the Birds; Idle Ideas; Life in Death; Going Home?; Hudson's Influence; Patagonia Conquered, 1870-1922; The Invention of Argentina; Remington Roca; Buenos Aires Herald; Lady at Leisure; Borders: El "Perito" Moreno; National Parks; Anarchy on the Sheep Farms; Lonely Outposts; Tierra del Fuego: the Winners; The Gold Rush: Julius Popper; Tierra del Fuego: the Losers; Aftermath; Taming the Wind: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.; title: Learning to FlyTo the Sahara of the Americas; Life and Art; Battling the Elements; No Going Home; Reclaiming Territory: Latin American Narratives; The Psychogeography of Emptiness; Stories from the South; Magellan and the Mountains; Postscript: The Anglo-Fuegian; Alternative Histories; Dead Zones; Minimal Stories: Film and Music in Patagonia; Realism: Recovering Lost Ground; Surrealism: Re-imagining Legends; Roads through Nowhere; New Routes; Mundo Grua (Crane World, 1999); Historias Mínimas (Minimal Stories, 2002); Bonbón El Perro (Bonbon the Dog, 2004); Glue (2006); Silence and Mystique.