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PILKINGTON,JOHN: : An Englishman in Patagonia.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.CENTURY,1991.

ISBN 0712635823.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's neat black ink inscrptn:'to Charles Best Wishes,John Pilkington' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,wrap-around scenic (seascape) colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Some minor indentations to rear panel - without complete penetration to the dw/dj, but affecting the bds beneath, commensurately in a couple of places.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain olive green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped red ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,1st edn,xi-xiipp+1-223pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,9 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w scenic and autobiographical photographs in 1 block, between pp116/17,5 b/w maps interspersed throughout the text and the book,further reading and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED+dedicated title page,dedication,contents list/table with a maps list to it's recto,a b/w map (Patagonia) frntis and 4pp blanks at the rear. See also my book ID's rja34369 and rja416312 for Paul Theroux's 'The Old Patagonian Express' for UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edns. Patagonia,at the southernmost tip of South America,is one of the remotest regions of the world.It was reportedly named in 1520 when Magellan,taking shelter in a bay,saw a gigantic Indian on the shore.Noticing the man's prodigious feet, he cried,"Ha,Patagon!" - which (allowing for his archaic Spanish and some corruption in the telling) may be translated as "Wow,Big Feet!" Such was Patagonia's evil reputation that it provided the inspiration for Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World'. "Patagonia?" screamed Lady Florence Dixie's friends when she announced her expedition with Lord Queensberry in 1879. "Who would ever think of going to such a place? Why,you will be eaten up by cannibals!" Today Patagonia is made up of the southern parts of Chile and Argentina,but it's still a land of lonely plains,craggy peaks and wild weather.Someone once said that Patagonia without wind would be like hell without the Devil. Picking his way through Patagonia's half a million square miles,he unearthed stories of explorers and pioneers,of rustlers and outlaws,such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,and of earlier travellers,such as Charles Darwin and Bruce Chatwin.Still more revealing were his own encounters: for instance with Welsh villagers singing hymns around a harmonium; refugees from Nazi Germany; Scottish evangelists awaiting Armageddon; hippy exiles; prosperous young supporters of ex-president Pinochet; and an Argentine lynch-mob who have him in mind as their victim! He examines what it is that attracts people to such a desolate land - and reflects,too,on the ethics of travel writing. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
'to Charles Best Wishes,John Pilkington'

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