In Patagonia (2011)
In Patagonia
“Cook, a glib American doctor on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1898-9, who tried to pass it off as his own work. Cook was the mythomane traveller from Rip van Winkle country who began with a milk-round and claimed the first ascent of Mount McKinley and to have beaten Robert Peary to the North Pole. He died at New Rochelle in 1940, after serving a sentence for selling forged oil shares.
The manuscript of the dictionary got lost in Germany during the Second World War, but was recovered by Si...r Leonard Woolley, the excavator of Ur, and presented by the family to the British Museum.
Lucas Bridges was the first White to make friends with the Onas. They trusted him alone when men like the Red Pig were butchering their kin. The Uttermost Part of the Earth was one of my favourite books as a boy. In it he describes looking down from Mount Spión Kop on the sacred Lake Kami, and how, later, the Indians helped him hack a trail linking Harberton with the family’s other farm at Viamonte.MoreLess
The manuscript of the dictionary got lost in Germany during the Second World War, but was recovered by Si...r Leonard Woolley, the excavator of Ur, and presented by the family to the British Museum.
Lucas Bridges was the first White to make friends with the Onas. They trusted him alone when men like the Red Pig were butchering their kin. The Uttermost Part of the Earth was one of my favourite books as a boy. In it he describes looking down from Mount Spión Kop on the sacred Lake Kami, and how, later, the Indians helped him hack a trail linking Harberton with the family’s other farm at Viamonte.MoreLess
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