At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig

John Gimlette (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2003
Hutchinson (Verlag)
978-0-09-179459-0 (ISBN)

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Paraguay is among the most beautiful countries in the world. The beguiling Paraguayans, despised and feared by their neighbours, are unfathomable. They adore Britain (hundreds volunteered to fight for Britain in the Falklands War) and have a taste for soccer. This book aims to capture Paraguay's passion, quirkiness and contradictions.

Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's not a place for the timid because there isn't even a guidebook. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new book, is among the most beautiful and captivating countries in the world. The beguiling Paraguayans, despised and feared by their neighbours, are unfathomable. They adore Britain (hundreds volunteered to fight for Britain in the Falklands War), have a taste for soccer and, when the Vice-President is murdered, they call in Scotland Yard. John Gimlette has written a brilliant evocation which captures Paraguay's originality, passion, quirkiness and contradictions.

Although this is his first book, John Gimlette is already well established as a travel journalist, having won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for an essay which has led to this book, and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award. He writes regularly for the Telegraph. When not deep in the jungles of Paraguay he practises as a barrister in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.1.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	541 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Südamerika
ISBN-10	0-09-179459-5 / 0091794595
ISBN-13	978-0-09-179459-0 / 9780091794590
Zustand	Neuware