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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Natl Geographic Society
Publication date
January 1, 2004
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780792262404
ISBN-10
0792262409
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 8.25 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$21.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In a collection of evocative essays, the acclaimed Chilean poet, novelist, and playwright journeys through the forbidding desert of Northern Chile, visiting the region's ghost towns, mines, family origins, prehistoric human remains, harsh landscapes, and a remote Pinochet death camp.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state and forced the desert's colonization.
The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate regionââ¬âand terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chileââ¬âand, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp.
The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate regionââ¬âand terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chileââ¬âand, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp.
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Hardcover
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from Natl Geographic Society (January 1, 2004)
9780792262404 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $21.00
About: The Chilean poet, novelist, and playwright journeys through the forbidding desert of Northern Chile, visiting the region's ghost towns, mines, prehistoric human remains, harsh landscapes, and a remote Pinochet death camp.
About: The Chilean poet, novelist, and playwright journeys through the forbidding desert of Northern Chile, visiting the region's ghost towns, mines, prehistoric human remains, harsh landscapes, and a remote Pinochet death camp.
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