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The author combines history, political intrigue, stories of people she travels with or meets along the way, verbal snapshots of unbelievable landscape, and box after box of wine (mixed with Coke) into a travel book that has made Chile even more of a mystery to me NOW than when I started reading it.
The country stretches along South America and includes icebergs, rainforests, desert, mountains, island regions, wine country, with a diversity of old European colonials and (mostly extinct) native pe ...more
The country stretches along South America and includes icebergs, rainforests, desert, mountains, island regions, wine country, with a diversity of old European colonials and (mostly extinct) native pe ...more
Subtitled A Journey Through Chile, Travels in a Thin Country is a memoir of Sara Wheeler's exploration of the entire length of this South American Country.
I love travel books, and was eagerly anticipating being immersed in this one, but I found it a bit disappointing. First, where were the locals? It seemed as if Wheeler, despite taking extensive language courses beforehand, never talked to native Chileans. Every single person she came into contact with was an expat. It gave you the impressi ...more
I love travel books, and was eagerly anticipating being immersed in this one, but I found it a bit disappointing. First, where were the locals? It seemed as if Wheeler, despite taking extensive language courses beforehand, never talked to native Chileans. Every single person she came into contact with was an expat. It gave you the impressi ...more
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