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Where the Earth Ends: A Journey Beyond Patagonia
Author(s): John Harrison (Author)
- Publisher: John Murray
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2000
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0719561515
- ISBN-13: 9780719561511
Book Description
At the end of the 20th century, John Harrison travelled through one of the most hostile environments on Earth. From the Argentine plains, he journeyed ever south, searching out the stories of natives and settlers, through Patagonia, the land where Magellan and Drake walked with giants, to Tierra del Fuego. On the tip of South America - the last continental land on earth colonized by man.;One morning a sign went up advertising trips on a Russian research vessel, so he tore up a year's lanning and added Antartica to the journey. Within days he was sailing through towering grey seas where in real life Coleridge's poetic albatross was shot. Then began an attempt to break through the ice and stand on the edge of the continent.;Returning round Cape Horn, he went north, through Chile's remote, wild fjords, where real journeys began to merge with fiction. He sailed through the mists where Byron's grandfather was wrecked, and walked on the bright Pacific isle where the real Robinson Crusoe taught his cats to dance.
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Tracing John Harrison's travels around the tip of South America, this text follows his journey ever south searching out the stories of natives and settlers, from the Argentine plains, through Patagonia to Tierra del Fuego.
From the Author
A journey to the last land settled by humans
If you want to read a travel book which fully explores the history and poetry of a remote place, and doesnt just record an outsiders impressions, this is for you.
If you want to read a travel book which fully explores the history and poetry of a remote place, and doesnt just record an outsiders impressions, this is for you.
A chance encounter with a lost 300-year-old manuscript and a forgotten book led me down through Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego to the tip of South America, Where the Earth Ends - the English translation of the Aymara Indian word Chile.
I spent six years obsessed by a project to visit and write about the land where Stone Age cultures survived until the twentieth century. I found the last members of those tribes in wildernesses where reality blurs into myths, where the albatross shot by Coleridges Ancient Mariner was a real bird, which haunted Captain Shelvockes ship as it fought Cape Horn. Then I went on, to the last continent, Antarctica.
I walked in dreams, you can too, Where the Earth Ends.
