by Luis Sepúlveda · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483107249
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«Patagonia Express» is the travel book by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Luis Sepúlveda narrates journeys through Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and portrays its people: wandering sailors, radio announcers, aviators and other inhabitants of that remote landscape. The book opens and closes with encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Francisco Coloane, and conveys that travelling is a way of knowing and loving the world.
«Patagonia Express» originally appeared in 1995 with the subtitle «Apuntes de viaje». This copy from Maxi-Tusquets belongs to the Fábula collection, number 154.
For readers of travel literature and for those who follow the career of Luis Sepúlveda.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
