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Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey through Chile

✍ Scribed by Wheeler, Sara

Book ID
108660604
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307560766

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✦ Synopsis

Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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