AT HOME WITH THE PATAGONIANS

Sinopsis del producto

These «cannibals» were the Tehuelche Indians of Patagonia, and At Home with the Patagonians is George Chaworth Musters remarkable account of the time he spent living with these fascinating and complicated people. Exploding the simple myth of the «noble savage», this work serves to examine the daily jealousies and rivalries, the small injustices and passing kindliess of a people not so very far removed from ourselves. In a remote corner of South America, the «last of nature´s works», Musters follows in the footsteps of Magellan and Darwin, and what emerges is a picture as historically important as it is hauntingly familiar. For within the deep valleys of this «ancient habitation of giants» lived a people from whom, asserts the author, there is so much we can learn.

9781845880088

MUSTERS, GEORGE C.