by Luis Sepúlveda · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483835784
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«Patagonia Express» is the travel book by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Luis Sepúlveda travels through Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and portrays Ladislao Eznaola, a sea vagabond in search of a ghost ship, his brother Agustín, and pilots who transport everything from wine to the dead. Framed by encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Francisco Coloane, the book proposes a way of travelling, looking at and loving the world.
The book belongs to the Maxi collection (no. 13); it was originally published in 1995.
Readers of travel literature and followers of Luis Sepúlveda's work.
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.
