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Travels in a thin country : a journey through Chile / Sara Wheeler

By:

Wheeler, Sara

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Modern Library , 1999.Edition: Modern Library paperback edDescription: xxii, 304 p. : maps ; 21 cmISBN:

9780375753657

Subject(s):

Chile -- --Description and travel

DDC classification:

LAS 918.304 WHE

LOC classification:

F3065 .W44 1999

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 918.304 WHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024112

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304).

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.

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