Patagonia Revisited [Hardcover]

Bruce Chatwin (Author), Paul Theroux (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1986

Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a country of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. It immediately lodged itself in the imagination as a metaphor for "the ultimate", the point beyond which one could not go. In this book, Chatwin and Theroux join forces to explores the instances in which the "final capes of exile" have affected the literary imagination, and to track down some of the extraordinary travellers, past and present, from W.H. Hudson, to Captain Joshua Slocum and Butch Cassidy. Paul Theroux has won the Whitbread Literary Award. This book had its origins in an entertainment the writers gave for The Royal Geographical Society, at a time when Theroux was following Chatwin's "In Patagonia" with "The Old Patagonian Express".

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 62 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T); 1st Am. ed. edition (January 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039538401X
• ISBN-13: 978-0395384015
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,348,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bruce Chatwin reinvented British travel writing with his first book, In Patagonia, and followed it with many travel books and novels, each unique and extraordinary. He died in 1989.