Title: Patagonia
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 ...
Subjects: Description and travel, History, Argentina, description and travel, Chile, description and travel, Argentina, history, Chile, history, Patagonia (argentina and chile)
Places: Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)