In Patagonia

This book is a travel narrative reviewed by Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review, as "a masterpiece of travel, history and adventure". Paul Theroux wrote that it "is pure pleasure." A reviewer for the Washington Post wrote "Charwin evokes his journey with a remarkably deft touch," and in this unique book he relates the oddest facts imaginable, writes of Patagonia's strange history, and tells wonderful and exciting stories. Called "the uttermost part of the earth." Patagonia is that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America. It is the country to which Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid escaped when things got too hot for them in the Old West and where the bandits were made welcome. It is the land that supplied the model for Caliban of Shakespeare's The Tempest. And Patagonia is where Charles Darwin began to formulate his "survival of the fittest" theory.