Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile

by Sara Wheeler

Book Overview

An elegant travel writer discovers Chile, the country squeezed in between a vast ocean and running along the longest mountain range on Earth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375753656
• ISBN13: 9780375753657
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Random House Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

lover of travel lit

This was one of the most delightful travel books ever! Not only do you get a glimpse of the entire country, from north to south, but you get a real social feel for class differences between the oligarchy and the poor. The author has a great sense of humor, which is always a plus.

Journry through Chile

Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library)A very intertaining journal of travels through Chile.

kept the magic of Chile alive...

I disagree with the other reviewer's comments who felt he had to slog through the book waiting for it to payoff. I thoroughly enjoyed Sara Wheeler's writing on Chile and reccomend this book to anyone who has traveled to Chile or is contemplating a trip. I started reading her book at the end of a 2-week adventure in Chile and many of her comments and thoughts resonated with my own experiences in Chile. I hated to leave the country and its beauty behind, but her book allowed me to retain and relive the magic of my own trip for another week+ as I savored her writing.