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Summary: Human Fates
Review: A relative of mine recommended me this book because I was going to Patagonia. So I bought it to read during my trip.But it is not exactly a travel book. Well, it does describe a lot of weird details of the region's history, geography and zoology some of which might be kinda funny when you're travelling there. However, »In Patagonia« is more of a potpourri of human fates. Often it is pretty confusing to hold together the different characters and story-tellers and historical figures. So if you're not prepared for a not-too-easy read, refrain from this book.
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Summary: If you wear the clothes, you gotta read the book!
Review: After three years in Patagonia, on the Argentine side mostly,Chatwins book describes it beautifully. From Bahia Blanca to Ushuaia,my first year I used it as a travel guide. Chatwin managed to objectively consider the Argentine with an equal eye, as opposed to Theroux coloniality. I made a lot of friends in Argentina, and reading Chatwin was like studying an excellant text before the exam.
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Summary: The best travel book I've read
Review: Although a little slow starting, an excellent book filled with wonderful anecdotes, historical information and beautiful geography. Well worth the read
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Summary: Interesting but not one of the great travel writers
Review: As a young boy Chatwin is fascinated by a piece of skin of a long excint animal in the house of his grandmother. He decides to go searching for something like that in Patagonia. This book consists of about 100 very small chapters in which Chatwin combines the tale of his own adventure with the tales of travellers long before him. It reads like a collection of short stories what might be the reason I like this book less than the travelbooks of Thesiger, Theroux, Thubron or Murphy, to name a few.
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Summary: Mixed impressions
Review: Being Patagonia a huge extension of land, everyone expects that it's a vast and complex subject to write about. Reading this book made me feel that, in a certain moment, there'd be a shocking experience or kind of "revelation" for the author. But, as the chapters ran, I got somewhat frustrated and felt that, despiting his skills as a writer, Bruce didn't really try to deepen himself on the mysteries of the region, remaining in the surface of some sparses topics, like go in search of Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid's steps there, sheep raisers, etc... Anyway, it still had a story good enough to encourage me to take my car and drive some 7.500 Km from home and know Patagonia. I expect to write a further review after completing this trip (mid-March).
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Summary: A cure for insomnia!!!!
Review: borrriiiing!!!! My english teacher forced me to read this : (
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Summary: La busqueda del fin de mundo
Review: Bruce Chatwin es un escritor formidable, de una erudicion y una sensibilidad extraordinaria. En este libro, revisa las leyendas y las historias de conquistadores, delincuentes, revolucionarios, aventureros e inmigrantes que conformaron la inhospita tierra de la Patagonia. En su viaje de 6 meses, se acerca y nos acerca a los lectores a los lugares y a los personajes que lo habitaron. Magistralmente, Chatwin une el presente con la historia, en la inmensidad patagonica, que inspiro, entre otros, a Shakespeare, Dante, Poe, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Melville y Darwin. Un paisaje y un libro absolutamente inolvidable.
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Summary: a stranger here
Review: Chatwin never understood Patagonia, moreover he never liked it. I know this because Chatwin himself said so. Anyway, all the wonderful people who lives there and fight their lives over day after day, don't like Chatwin either. So we are even, although Chatwin passed by, and wonderful Patagonia is for ever.
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Summary: In Patagonia is a solid piece of literature
Review: Chatwin, here, is capable of bringing into light what impression aroused in him concerning Patagonia. One can see that,particularly, in the last chapter. It is within the final sentence. Read it once more!
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Summary: Good on people and history, nothing on natural wonders
Review: Cute sketches on the interesting and rare types of people that would choose to live at the bottom of the world, far from the bothers of civilization. I was more interested in the natural wonders of Patagonia, of which this book says almost nothing.
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