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Summary: Beautiful book
Review: I read this book while spending a month travelling through Chile and this book was the best reading I did on my trip. Patagonia is huge, empty, and stunningly beautiful. The people who live there are hardy and often very, very isolated. The author spends time getting to know the people, especially the women, who live a place with long, bitter cold winters, where their nearest neighbors can be 30 miles away down terrible, pitted roads, where trips to the grocery store may be once month at best, where they have many children not just to help with the ranch work but also to ease the intense loneliness on the estancias, and where the growing cities (even small ones) are slowly changing this way of life. She considers not just their daily existance and individual personalities, but the sociology of living such isolated lives. The author's descriptions are intense, warm, and beautiful. I gave away my only copy, and repurchased the book when I returned home.
Rating:
Summary: Beautiful book
Review: I read this book while spending a month travelling through Chile and this book was the best reading I did on my trip. Patagonia is huge, empty, and stunningly beautiful. The people who live there are hardy and often very, very isolated. The author spends time getting to know the people, especially the women, who live a place with long, bitter cold winters, where their nearest neighbors can be 30 miles away down terrible, pitted roads, where trips to the grocery store may be once month at best, where they have many children not just to help with the ranch work but also to ease the intense loneliness on the estancias, and where the growing cities (even small ones) are slowly changing this way of life. She considers not just their daily existance and individual personalities, but the sociology of living such isolated lives. The author's descriptions are intense, warm, and beautiful. I gave away my only copy, and repurchased the book when I returned home.
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