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Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier: Riding the Pioneer Trail
Jon Burrough
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Description for Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier: Riding the Pioneer Trail
Hardcover. Records the author's 1,500 km journey in vivid detail Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 pages of colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KLS; WTL; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
Patagonia is one of the 'final frontiers' on our planet: remote, untamed and much of it inaccessible except on horseback. Though travelled before and sporadically settled, it remains remarkably resistant to human trampling. Divided unequally between Argentina and Chile, Patagonia remains a land of mystery today. The history of those who settled in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries along its Andean frontier is even less known. They are the 'dark horses' of this book.Jon Burrough rode with his gaucho guide for 1,500 kilometres through this land of savage beauty. Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier evokes the rawness of the ... Read more
Patagonia is one of the 'final frontiers' on our planet: remote, untamed and much of it inaccessible except on horseback. Though travelled before and sporadically settled, it remains remarkably resistant to human trampling. Divided unequally between Argentina and Chile, Patagonia remains a land of mystery today. The history of those who settled in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries along its Andean frontier is even less known. They are the 'dark horses' of this book.Jon Burrough rode with his gaucho guide for 1,500 kilometres through this land of savage beauty. Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier evokes the rawness of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930391
SKU
V9781909930391
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99-50
About Jon Burrough
Jon Burrough's love affair with South America started over forty years ago when he explored the continent with a tape recorder, four bottles of whisky for emergencies, and the 50 pounds sterling which Harold Wilson's government then permitted travellers to take abroad. Since then he has travelled extensively in Colombia and Peru as well as in Patagonia.
Reviews for Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier: Riding the Pioneer Trail
'[The] contents of this book provide a different view of the real Patagonia via one of its more interesting parts
the border between two nations
and is presented in an agreeable style in a cultured but simple language, whose reading we recommend with particular pleasure.'
Mateo Martinic B. Emeritus Professor. Research Centre for Studies of the Southern Man, Patagonian ... Read more
the border between two nations
and is presented in an agreeable style in a cultured but simple language, whose reading we recommend with particular pleasure.'
Mateo Martinic B. Emeritus Professor. Research Centre for Studies of the Southern Man, Patagonian ... Read more