Beyond the Pampas : In Search of Patagonia
Beyond the Pampas : In Search of Patagonia
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Author(s): Imogen Herrad
ISBN No.: 9781913830649
Pages: 254
Year: 202604
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 22.22
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

An entrancing and highly unusual account of a journey to the ends of the earth in search of a dream. Imogen Herrad sets off in search of the descendants of the nineteenth-century colony of Welsh settlers in Patagonia, in the deep south of Argentina, and discovers that Welsh-speaking communities, proud of their heritage, still exist there today. She also discovers a country and a way of life hugely different from her European experience. Her explorations lead Herrad beyond the Welsh to discover the even more remarkable story of the Mapuche, Tehuelche and other indigenous tribes, who have suffered the all too familiar fate of colonised peoples. This unexpected direction gives Herrad a new perspective on her own life and those of others, as she ends her travels standing on a Patagonian hillside, part of an ancient Mapuche ceremony of the land.


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