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?Francisco Coloane is the Jack London of our times.? ?Alvaro Mutis These spellbinding stories of adventure and discovery are populated with explorers, fortune hunters, revolutionaries, seafarers, ship?s captains, and smugglers. But the undeniable protagonist in all nine stories is nature itself. Southern Chile, the world?s end, with its severe beauty?cold, treacherous, desolate?finds its ideal poet in Francisco Coloane. In his stories, this stern landscape rises like a definitive symbol of the elementary and ceaseless drama of human conflict. Coloane is a master storyteller, deftly distilling the universal from the particular and the extreme. But no abstraction of this kind can do these tales justice. Their enduring beauty lies in the forceful, gripping narrative, and the elements that move it: men?s crimes and passions, and the land?s breathtaking glory and murderous wrath. ?Long arms, arms like rivers, are necessary to fully embrace Francisco Coloane. Or perhaps it?s necessary to be a squall of wind, gusting over him beard and all. Otherwise, take a seat across the table from him and analyze the question, study him deeply; you will surely end by drinking a bottle of wine with Francisco and happily postponing the matter to some later date.??Pablo Neruda

The most updated edition of a map for Tierra del Fuego. It includes the only available big inset of Navarino Island, (South Chile, near Cape Horn) the new jewel for trekkers. Spanish/English.Los sectores argentino y chileno de Tierra del Fuego. Relieve satelital, centros invernales, rutas secundarias, huellas. Ampliaciones de la Isla de los Estados, de la Isla Navarino y del Canal Beagle. El mas completo y actualizado existente de la isla.

The most updated edition of a map for Tierra del Fuego. It includes the only available big inset of Navarino Island, (South Chile, near Cape Horn) the new jewel for trekkers. Spanish/English.Los sectores argentino y chileno de Tierra del Fuego. Relieve satelital, centros invernales, rutas secundarias, huellas. Ampliaciones de la Isla de los Estados, de la Isla Navarino y del Canal Beagle. El mas completo y actualizado existente de la isla.

?Francisco Coloane is the Jack London of our times.? ?Alvaro Mutis These spellbinding stories of adventure and discovery are populated with explorers, fortune hunters, revolutionaries, seafarers, ship?s captains, and smugglers. But the undeniable protagonist in all nine stories is nature itself. Southern Chile, the world?s end, with its severe beauty?cold, treacherous, desolate?finds its ideal poet in Francisco Coloane. In his stories, this stern landscape rises like a definitive symbol of the elementary and ceaseless drama of human conflict. Coloane is a master storyteller, deftly distilling the universal from the particular and the extreme. But no abstraction of this kind can do these tales justice. Their enduring beauty lies in the forceful, gripping narrative, and the elements that move it: men?s crimes and passions, and the land?s breathtaking glory and murderous wrath. ?Long arms, arms like rivers, are necessary to fully embrace Francisco Coloane. Or perhaps it?s necessary to be a squall of wind, gusting over him beard and all. Otherwise, take a seat across the table from him and analyze the question, study him deeply; you will surely end by drinking a bottle of wine with Francisco and happily postponing the matter to some later date.??Pablo Neruda

Tierra del Fuego is more than a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Captain Hornblower; it is also a chilling psychological and cultural tale, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or Lord of the Flies, that probes deeply into human nature. Based on the true story of the Yámana Indian, Jemmy Button (parts of which are recorded in Chapter 10 of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle), the novel explores Captain Robert Fitzroy's abduction of Jemmy Button and his attempt to "civilize" him in England and return him to his country as a bearer of "enlightened society." His experiment leads to tragic consequences. The novel deals with European arrogance and exploitation, but avoids falling into the cliché of "the Noble Savage." Jemmy (the "Other") remains strange and the attempt to co-opt him fails.Tierra del Fuego has already won two major awards for the Spanish edition: The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for the best work of fiction written by a woman and The Best Book of the Year Award at the Buenos Aires Book Fair.

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An account of the Ona, Yahgan, Alacaluf and Haush Natives of the Fuegian Archipelago. Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation. First published in the Vol. X, 1928. This highly illustrative book is the result of an expedition to Tierra del Fuego, where the author made his research with the collaboration of the Bridges and Lawrence families, the first white settlers in the Island.

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Hardcover, Quarto, Green Cloth, Gilt Lettered, 1983, PP.396, Figures, Color Photo Plates, Distribution Maps, Map Decorated End Papers, The Stock Photo may have wavey white apearence which is actually reflection off the plastic protective cover

122 pages. 8.98x6.02x0.39 inches. In Stock.

These records comprise 47 chants sung by the last true Indian of the Selk'nam (Ona) group, Lola Kiepja. The Selk'nam had no musical instruments. These chants are sung without any sort of accompaniment. The Selk'nam were the former inhabitants of the largest island of Tierra del Fuego which is located just south of the Straits of Magellan. When these recordings were taped in 1966, Lola was the only one of ten surviving people of Indian descent who was still a Selk'nam. She was the eldest of the t

An excellent photo guide covering the southern half of Chile and Argentina, along with the Falkland Islands and the sub-Antarctic seas. Over 300 species are shown with multiple color photos of great quality. Another 130+ species have brief accounts in the appendix. Most birds have two pages of photos. Typically, there is one large (half-page) photo with another 5-7 photos showing the various plumages for gender, age, and subspecies. The text, in both English and Spanish, covers identification, habitat, range, and habits. The authors make a point to cover significant subspecies with many of the birds. While the identification section does give a good description, there is nearly zero mention of how the birds differ from their similar species. Even some brief notes on this would be helpful for groups like the canasteros, miners, and cinclodes. The range maps are done very well and show the outlines of the provinces in each of the countries.

An excellent photo guide covering the southern half of Chile and Argentina, along with the Falkland Islands and the sub-Antarctic seas. Over 300 species are shown with multiple color photos of great quality. Another 130+ species have brief accounts in the appendix. Most birds have two pages of photos. Typically, there is one large (half-page) photo with another 5-7 photos showing the various plumages for gender, age, and subspecies. The text, in both English and Spanish, covers identification, habitat, range, and habits. The authors make a point to cover significant subspecies with many of the birds. While the identification section does give a good description, there is nearly zero mention of how the birds differ from their similar species. Even some brief notes on this would be helpful for groups like the canasteros, miners, and cinclodes. The range maps are done very well and show the outlines of the provinces in each of the countries.

High graphic quality. This volume deals with the traditions of the Selknam and the personal relations of the author with her informants. The Selknam now are an extinct people that inhabited the main island of Tierra del Fuego, at the far end of South America. In the midst of this isolated, frigid and inhospitable country, they developed a nomadic life organized in small family groups or lineages that depended mainly on hunting the guanaco. Occasionally they gathered to bid farewell to their dead or to celebrate the remarkable Hain initiation ceremony. From 1880 onward, European colonization accelerated the tragic process of their extinction. Diseases from abroad as well as Indian hunters and vigilante groups were the main factors leading to their demise.

High graphic quality. This volume deals with the traditions of the Selknam and the personal relations of the author with her informants. The Selknam now are an extinct people that inhabited the main island of Tierra del Fuego, at the far end of South America. In the midst of this isolated, frigid and inhospitable country, they developed a nomadic life organized in small family groups or lineages that depended mainly on hunting the guanaco. Occasionally they gathered to bid farewell to their dead or to celebrate the remarkable Hain initiation ceremony. From 1880 onward, European colonization accelerated the tragic process of their extinction. Diseases from abroad as well as Indian hunters and vigilante groups were the main factors leading to their demise.

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Before the turn of the century, Tierra del Fuego (Fireland), the archipelago between the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn at the very tip of South America, was one of the most wild and forbidding regions on earth-remote, unknown and inhabited by hostile tribes. E. Lucas Bridges was born into this inhospitable environment in 1874, at Ushuaia, a remote outpost run by his missionary parents on the southern coast. In this remarkable account-a highly readable amalgam of autobiography and ethnography-he tells of a life packed with drama and adventure "at the bottom of the world". As a boy he worked in his father's fields and played with Yaghan Indian children, from whom he learned Yaghan ways, legends and language. It was also a time of great peril-as the Bridges family became caught up in deadly native quarrels, and sickness, robbers, shipwreck and other misfortunes took their toll. Later, Bridges became friendly with the Ona, fierce, nomadic hunters who resisted any encroachment on their hunting grounds. Gradually, the author won their trust and friendship, eventually becoming a fellow tribesman, adviser and--at times--protector. Interwoven in his exciting narrative are invaluable accounts of Ona courtship, magic, woodcraft, astrology,mourning and burial customs, painting and tattooing, clothing,mythology and storytelling, and much more. (Copied from back cover).

A bold and richly illustrated survey of the traditions and stylistic evolution of landscape painting in the Americas   As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identity. Picturing the Americas offers the first comprehensive treatment of this genre on both American continents, bringing into dialogue the landscape traditions of artists practicing between 1840 and 1940.   The catalogue is brilliantly illustrated with 260 color images, including works by U.S. artists Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Georgia O’Keeffe; Canadian artists Joseph Légaré, Frances Anne Hopkins, and Lawren Harris; Mexico’s José María Velasco, Uruguay’s Joaquín Torres-García, and Brazil’s Tarsila do Amaral, among many others. Leading scholars offer a Pan-American perspective on these landscape traditions: essays consider the emergence of modernism, as well as how the development of landscape imagery reflects the intricately intertwined geographies and sociopolitical histories of the peoples, nations, regions, and diasporas of the two continents.  

Before the turn of the century, Tierra del Fuego (Fireland), the archipelago between the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn at the very tip of South America, was one of the most wild and forbidding regions on earth-remote, unknown and inhabited by hostile tribes. E. Lucas Bridges was born into this inhospitable environment in 1874, at Ushuaia, a remote outpost run by his missionary parents on the southern coast. In this remarkable account-a highly readable amalgam of autobiography and ethnography-he tells of a life packed with drama and adventure "at the bottom of the world". As a boy he worked in his father's fields and played with Yaghan Indian children, from whom he learned Yaghan ways, legends and language. It was also a time of great peril-as the Bridges family became caught up in deadly native quarrels, and sickness, robbers, shipwreck and other misfortunes took their toll. Later, Bridges became friendly with the Ona, fierce, nomadic hunters who resisted any encroachment on their hunting grounds. Gradually, the author won their trust and friendship, eventually becoming a fellow tribesman, adviser and--at times--protector. Interwoven in his exciting narrative are invaluable accounts of Ona courtship, magic, woodcraft, astrology,mourning and burial customs, painting and tattooing, clothing,mythology and storytelling, and much more. (Copied from back cover).

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