by Bruce Chatwin · Ediciones Península · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483075432
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«En la Patagonia» is Bruce Chatwin's travel book, published by Ediciones Península in hardback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Bruce Chatwin sets out from a piece of skin seen in his childhood to travel to the southern tip of America. Amid desolate landscapes and testimonies of other travellers, Welsh settlers, outlaws like Butch Cassidy and marginal characters pass by, while the history of Patagonia blends with personal memory and travel literature.
Volume 25 of the Altair Viajes collection from Ediciones Península; 2nd edition of 2003. The work was originally published in 1977 as «In Patagonia» and won the Hawthornden Prize.
Recommended for readers of travel literature and for those who want to approach the history and myths of Patagonia before visiting it.
Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".
