[PDF] Patagonian Road eBook

Author : Kate McCahill
Publisher : Santa Fe Writers Project
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1939650569

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Spanning four seasons, 10 countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women for whom travel is not a path to love but to meaningful work, rare inspiration, and profound self-discovery. Following Paul Theroux's route from his 1979 travelogue, McCahill transports the reader from a classroom in a Quito barrio to a dingy room in an El Salvadorian brothel, and from the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires to the heights of the Peruvian Andes. A testament to courage, solitude, and the rewards of taking risks, Patagonian Road proves that discovery, clarity, and simplicity remain possible in the 21st century, and that travel holds an enduring capacity to transform.

Author : Chris Moss
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1908493356

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Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small tribes of hunter-gatherers and roaming nomads when Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520. A fateful moment for the natives, this was the start of an era of adventure and exploration. Soon Sir Francis Drake and John Byron, and sailors from Europe and America, would be exploring Patagonia's bays and inlets, mapping fjords and channels, whaling, sifting the streams for gold in the endless search for Eldorado. As the land was opened up in the nineteenth century, a crazed Frenchman declared himself King. A group of Welsh families sailed from Liverpool to Northern Patagonia to found a New Jerusalem in the desert. Further down the same river, Butch and Sundance took time out from bank robbing to run a small ranch near the Patagonian Andes. All these, and later travel writers, have left sketches and records, memoirs and diaries evoking Patagonia's grip on the imagination. From the empty plains to the crashing seas, from the giant dinosaur fossils to glacial sculptures, the landscape has inspired generations of travellers and artists.

Author : Nadia Lie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3319451383

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This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American cinema and society. Proposing the new category of “counter-road movie,” and paying special attention to the genre’s intricate relationship to modernity, Nadia Lie charts the variety of the road movie through films by both renowned and emerging filmmakers. The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity engages with ongoing debates on transnationalism and takes the reader along a wide range of topics, from exile to undocumented migration, from tourism to internally displaced people.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780395521052

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An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0547524005

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The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

Author : Tim Cahill
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307809374

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Tim Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty three and a half days.

Author : Hy Conrad
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617736899

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Upon the breakout success of their travel agency blog, TrippyGirl, Amy Abel and her mother, Fanny, are asked to join a group of prominent travel writers on a scenic train tour of Patagonia. Their expedition seems to chug along smoothly until Fanny finds a body scavenged by condors in the wilderness. Even more unsettling, the corpse mysteriously disappears before fellow tourists arrive. Some question Fanny’s sanity, but doubt becomes horror when the tour owner’s angel investor is found dead in a similar position. As a number of “accidents” validate Amy’s suspicion of foul play, the Abels must outsmart one very conniving killer—or they’ll soon be en route to their final destination . . . PRAISE FOR HY CONRAD “The mother/daughter sleuths are witty and quirky, and reminiscent of Miss Marple.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars on Death on the Patagonian Express “Smart, snappy dialogue and fun, likable characters.” —Library Journal, starred review on Toured to Death “An absolutely wonderful mystery, served just the way I like it—with heart and humor.” —Tony Shalhoub, star of TV’s Monk on Toured to Death

Author : Marcos Mendoza
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813596742

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Machine generated contents note: Contents List of Acronyms List of Spanish Terms List of Images Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part One: The Sphere of Tourism Consumption 1 Alpine-Style Mountaineering: Resolve and Death in the Andes 2 Adventure Trekking: Pursuing the Alpine Sublime Part Two: The Sphere of Service Production 3 Comerciante Entrepreneurship: Investment Hazard and Ethical Laboring 4 Golondrina Laboring: Informality and Play Part Three: The Sphere of the Conservation State 5 Community-Based Conservation: Land Managers and State-Civil Society Collaborations 6 Conservation Policing: Education and Environmental Impacts Part Four: The Politics of the Green Economy 7 Defending Popular Sustainability in la Comuna 8 Kirchnerismo and the Politics of the Green Economy Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Author : Yvon Chouinard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101201223

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Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.-shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. From his youth as the son of a French Canadian blacksmith to the thrilling, ambitious climbing expeditions that inspired his innovative designs for the sport's equipment, Let My People Go Surfing is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life-a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike. A newly revised edition of Let My People Go Surfing is available now. From the Trade Paperback edition.