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Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Museum-hop in Barrio Bellas Artes, kayak down the calm Rio Serrano, or marvel at the strikingly enigmatic moai of Easter Island; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Chile and Easter Island and begin your journey...
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After seizing power in a violent coup, President Augusto Pinochet ordered the construction of the Carretera Austral, a highway across Chile's southern wilderness. Staggering over mountain passes, skirting around volcanoes and glaciers, and cutting across interminable stretches of dense rainforest, the ambitious project took the rest of the century to complete. In an absorbing account, Justin Walker explores this territory from one end to the other,...
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"Discovering North of Chile by Car," is a travel story with more than 50 photos of a remote and fascinating region of Chile. You'll journey through beautiful landscapes, from Antofagasta up to the border with Bolivia and Peru, from the volcanoes of the Andes, the arid Atacama Desert, to the raging waves of the Pacific Ocean. You'll drive between lakes, salt deserts, geysers, rocky areas, canyons and small and isolated villages, full of charm and contrast....
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Chile has been a very desirable place to work and live for people and families from different parts of the world.
Its stable economy and countless international trade agreements, combined with a modern and beautiful capital city like Santiago, makes it very attractive as a favorite destination to start a new life. Besides, its people are nice and warm.
But like any new place we move to, there are hundreds of issues to know beforehand .Having the...
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Beside a rain-swollen river in Patagonia, a man approached on a horse. His mount, a rusty red beauty, sported the short-trimmed mane and neatly squared-off tail of a well-kept horse. The man wore goatskin chaps, a woolen poncho, and the jaunty black beret typical of the region. This pair belonged to this place in a way I could only dream of. The man stared at us. We were up to our knees in mud and dwarfed by huge backpacks. It was apparent we had...
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Con este libro pongo fin a mis "ejercicios de memoria", una trilogía que se refiere a las experiencias vividas en tres etapas de mi vida. Si las dos primeras tenían una secuencia en el tiempo, El viejo Puerto vuelve atrás, se retrotrae a la infancia y gira en torno a una ciudad: Valparaíso.
Dividido en tres partes, la primera subraya la originalidad de esta ciudad, en un país cuyas ciudades suelen tender a una cierta uniformidad. La segunda...
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Travel with the author to some fascinating and popular places as well as to interesting but less-traveled places in Southern South America. You will visit dozens of places through the author's adventures and misadventures in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and the Falkland Islands (also known as Islas Malvinas).
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The author of Say Her Name shares a deeply personal memoir of grieving the loss of his wife-and confronting the troubled city where she grew up. Five years after his wife's untimely death, Francisco Goldman decided to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City. The widower and award-winning writer wanted to symbolize his love and enduring grief by fully embracing his late wife's childhood home and the city that came to mean so much to them.
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Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north-with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved, family-oriented, Catholic, and conservative; and on the other fun-loving, entrepreneurial, neoliberal, and modern. Their geographical isolation from...
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After working in more than 40 countries and having served with the British SAS, Richard Villar knows a thing or two about the world. Join him as he tells the story of his 25-day journey from Arica in Chile's north, through Bolivia, to Chile once more, and San Pedro de Atacama. He will have you laughing, he will have you thinking, he will have you wondering. Read how holding a horse's testicles brings good luck, the danger of being attacked with burundanga,...
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Laissez-vous guider au cœur du Chili
Vivre le monde est la première collection de guides qui s'adresse au désir grandissant des Français et des Européens de vivre à l'étranger.
Etudiants, ingénieurs, artistes, professeurs, les opportunités ne manquent pas à Santiago et dans le reste du pays, créant une véritable communauté internationale dans le pays. Le Chili, puissance économique et puissance culturelle, semble trouver un nouveau...
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Chile-named the Lonely Planet 2017 destination of the year-has been Suzanne Adam's home for over four decades. She knows the territory-its culture, its idiosyncrasies, and its exotic landscapes, from Patagonian glaciers to the northern Atacama Desert. In this heartfelt collection of sixty-three personal essays, she searches for universal truths and sparks of beauty revealed in small, daily moments both in her native land-the United States-and in Chile....
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180° South takes readers behind the scenes of the film, 180° South, made by Chris Malloy, to learn more about the people who made the original overland journey to Patagonia in 1968, and the repeat journey over ocean and land 40 years later. The book includes stories of events and experiences that inspired Chris Malloy, Yvon Chouinard, and Doug Tompkins to choose paths committed to saving what's left of the wild world. Open it anywhere and enjoy...
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A blip of prosperity at the turn of the 20th century brought American trout to Patagonia, then for a half-century they were forgotten to fight wars and build a nation. Rediscovered by fishermen a half-century later, the fish had grown to epic proportions. In Chasing Rumor, Cameron Chambers chronicles his modern-day pilgrimage to the rivers of Patagonia in pursuit of these legendary 20-pound trout. What started as a trip focused on catching fish became...
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Your World Your Way!
Patagonia's staggering landscapes, titanic glaciers, and rugged mountains evoke mystery and inspire self-discovery. Explore the ends of the earth with Moon Patagonia.
With Moon Patagonia's practical tips, myriad activities, and an insider's view on the best things to do and see, you can plan your trip your way.
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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...
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Plongez au coeur du mystère entourant les imposantes statues de basalte de l'île de Pâques
En 1872, le jeune aspirant Julien Viaud, à bord du navire La Flore, fait route entre Valparaiso, capitale du Chili, et Tahiti, territoire français de Polynésie d'o il reviendra avec le pseudonyme de Pierre Loti (1850-1923). La mystérieuse île de Pâques est l'une des premières escales marquantes du futur grand écrivain voyageur, et ses talents de...
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