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Where the Earth EndsWhere the Earth Ends
was a Sunday Times Book of the Week. |
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I went because I had read of tribes living half-naked in the wild islands round Cape Horn, who continued until the 1920's as hunter-gatherers.
I went to follow my great-grandfather's wake, sailing square riggers to collect the copper and guano of Chile. I went, because the real Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked off that same guano coast. I found the descendants of those natives, I sailed those seas, I slept on Crusoe's shore. |
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| Going ashore in Antarctica | Puerto Natales. See Milly's | Taking a breather during a walk on Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier |
What the critics said: | 
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| 'teems with erudition, anecdotes and facts that are a delight to retell… carries an echo of Raymond Carver, or even Carver's mentor Hemingway.' | |
| David Wilson, South China Morning Post | |
| 'arresting, overwhelming. In none of the other authors I've read on Patagonia - Chatwin, Shipton and Tilman, Lucas Bridges - is there anything like the same packed wealth of historical story, odd encounter, human motivation.' | |
| Jim Perrin, New Welsh Review | |
| 'a fascinating book of insight, scholarship and adventurous travel, fired by childhood dreams perhaps, but fuelled by the skill of a writer from whom, I hope, we shall hear much more.' | |
| Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times | |
| 'A most unusual and delightful book, full of surprises, ambiguities and strange quirks of knowledge, and written with attractive gusto.' | |
| Jan Morris |
extracts from Where the Earth Ends:Milly's - living in Puerto NatalesAlexander Selkirk - the real Robinson Crusoe |