Chile Handbook in the Handbooks series from Footprint; comprehensive & leading guides designed & written for independent travellers who enjoy exploring off the beaten track. Footprint guides have an established reputation, built up since 1921, for catering for more adventurous & individual travellers. An unrestrictive editorial style also gives authors the freedom to capture & explore local cultures, sights & areas that are often not covered in other guides. Widely recognised for their reliability & independent writing style, Footprint guides all have the same layout. Introductory sections introduce the reader to the destination, with chapters on planning on your trip & essentials, including practical information & guidance on subjects such as when & where to go, itineraries, sport & activities, arts, getting there & around, eating & drinks, sleeping & a dedicated section on the anticipated carbon footprint involved in travelling to the destination. Each guide is organised geographically by region or country, with individual sections having a particular focus on an extensive range of sights & places of interest. Further, there are also details of accommodation, nightlife, restaurants & any notable local activities. Information boxes throughout the text give readers an insight into local customs, stories & sights of particular interest.A ...

Chile in Bradt’s new Highlights series exploring the country’s most popular places, routes & itineraries as selected by some of the world’s leading travel writers & tour operators. The guide

Includes:: the Atacama Desert, the Andes mountain range, coastal rainforest, glaciers & world-class vineyards. The guide is designed to present readers with the destination’s main highlights & must-see attractions to help travellers select the best route for an organised tour or plan an independent trip. It provides practical & useful guidance on making the most of their visit & colour photographs features throughout. Individual guides in this series have extensive introductory chapters on the local history, people & culture; the geography of the region & its natural landscape, including wildlife. Chapters dealing with practicalities include Planning a Trip & life On the Ground, providing comprehensive information on when & where to go, getting there, red tape, health & safety, cultural etiquette etc. The ‘ Highlights’ part of the guide focuses on the attractions, sites or experiences that are unique to the region or country. Detailed advice & recommendations from Brandt’s expert authors with a focus on things to see & do are provided, as well as concise listings on accommodation & eating out options.A couple of pages are dedicated to essential vocabulary & a list of recommended reading. About the author: Tim Burford spent five years in publishing before starting to write hiking & ecotourism guides, specialising in Latin America & eastern Europe.

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Detailed charts of all the main harbours & anchorages are accompanied by short text entries giving latitude & longitude & highlighting any dangers. For the larger ports & harbours there is information on the facilities & some useful onshore addresses. Based upon information collected by members of the Royal Cruising Club, Ocean Cruising Club & other yachtsmen. ...

Detailed charts of all the main harbours & anchorages are accompanied by short text entries giving latitude & longitude & highlighting any dangers. For the larger ports & harbours there is information on the facilities & some useful onshore addresses. Based upon information collected by members of the Royal Cruising Club, Ocean Cruising Club & other yachtsmen. ...

Chile at 1:1, 600, 000 on an indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant road map with topographic & tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet & presents this unusually long country in four sections. The two central panels also give good coverage of the Argentinian Andes, whilst the southern panel (southwards from approx. 46º, including the Chile Chico / Los Antiguos border crossing) extends to all the way to the Atlantic to cover southern Patagonia with Tierra del Fuego. Topography is shown by altitude colouring with graphics for salt flats, glaciers & names of mountain ranges, peaks, etc. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. Road network distinguishes between paved & unsurfaced roads &

Includes:: selected tracks. Driving distances are shown on main & selected secondary roads & border crossings are marked. Railway lines are included, local airports are indicated & in the fjords south of Puerto Montt ferry routes are marked. Internal administrative boundaries are shown with names of the provinces. The map highlights towns, villages & natural features worth visiting. Symbols show various places of interest, including campsites & selected mountain shelters, beaches & surfing sites, skiing & fishing areas, archaeological remains, thermal spas, etc. The map has a grid with latitude & longitude at intervals of 1º & an extensive index of localities with a separate list of national parks & protected areas. Map legend

Includes:: English.



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Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Atacama Desert & the Pacific Coast: even today the apperception of Chile remains remote & indistinct. There is no doubt that its geographical location
- confined between the Pacific Ocean & the Andes mountain range
- has had a role to play in the relative nescience, although it was the former political situation that led to the country`s isolation for almost twenty years. In fact, it is only in these last fifteen years that Chilean architecture has appeared on the international stage, mostly owing to Mathias Klotz, Alejandro Aravena, Smiljan Radic & Pezo von Ellrichsausen, amongst others. Chile can take pride in having built some genuine Modern masterpieces whilst having preserved a close relationship with its culture. During the twentieth century Europe provided Chile with sources of inspiration. Le Corbusier had a great influence on Chilean architects despite never having visited the country; his followers, such as Emilio Duhart, Roberto Davila & the BVCH office, realised buildings which are today internalised deep in the Chilean psyche. The Bauhaus movement served as another influence for architects such as Sergio Larrain. Overall, this book aims to be a practicalreference source of the best architectural works of the twentieth & twenty-first centuries in Chile.

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This is the first guidebook focussed entirely on the magnificent & historic road uniting northern & southern Patagonia. The few hardy travellers that embark on this journey struggle to find even basic information about the region. The book provides visitors to the often-visited Bariloche & Chilean Lake District with a spectacular alternative means to reach the southern extremes of Patagonia. The road passes through world-class national parks. It stretches from the high Andes to the remote Pacific coast, fed by five great rivers, countless fjords & the largest ice fields outside of Antarctica & Greenl&. Trekking options abound, including to & from neighbouring Argentina through pristine wilderness. The region is home to a sub-tropical rainforest, secluded villages without vehicles, picturesque lakes, dramatic & often active volcanoes, & sufficient activities to satisfy even the most adventurous visitors. In addition to practical advice, the book explores the mythical history of a region cut-off from the outside world, & the social & economic impact of the relatively recent connectivity to both mainland Chile & Argentina. Travelling in one of the last unknown regions of South America is challenging, & this book facilitates such travel for those wishing to escape the ”gringo trail”. ...

Chile on nine indexed & GPS compatible regional maps at 1:400, 000 from Compass Editorial, printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. The maps provide an excellent representation of the topography & show many more locations than general maps of the whole country. Each map is double-sided, with a small overlap between the sides & the adjoining titles. The maps provide an exceptionally vivid picture of the terrain, using satellite imagery as a base, with shading & altitude colouring, plus plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks, passes, salt flats, etc. National parks & other protected areas are prominently highlighted. Classification of the road network indicates dirt roads & tracks, as well as hard & soft 4WD roads, & shows locations of border crossings, petrol stations, toll booths & police units. Driving distances are marked on main & selected secondary routes. Railway lines are included & local airports/aerodromes are marked. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest & areas for recreational activities, including tourist information offices, UNESCO World Heritage & other cultural or historical sites, beaches, hot springs, trekking & skiing areas, etc. Each side of the map has its own index & a distance table. The maps have a latitude & longitude grid at 15’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Chilean Patagonia & Tierra del Fuego on light, waterproof & tear resistant maps from SIG Patagon, covering at varying scales the regions most visited areas. The maps are contoured, with additional relief shading providing a good picture of the topography, indicate areas for trekking and/or other recreational pursuits including nature watching, & are GPS compatible. For more information please see individual descriptions. ...

This new edition features an introduction following Sara Wheeler’s most recent trip back to Chile, taken with her eight-year-old son. In it she discusses the numerous changes that have taken place in the time she’s been away, & the prosperity the country is now enjoying
- some of which may be detracting from the earlier pleasures & the nation’s unique character. Squeezed in between a vast ocean & the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2, 600 miles long & never more than 110 miles wide
- not a country which lends itself easily to maps. Nor, as Sara Wheeler found out, does it easily lend itself to a lone woman with two carpetbags who wishes to travel from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Yet, despite bureaucratic, geographic & climatic setbacks, Sara Wheeler managed to complete that journey in six months, discovering en route a country that is quite extraordinarily diverse. This is an account of an odyssey which included Christmas Day spent with a llama sandwich on the Tropic of Capricorn at 13, 000 feet, a sex hotel in the capital, four days wedged aboard a cargo boat, a wet tent & and high street bank in Patagonia. In Santiago she talked her way into the prisons, in Tierra del Fuego she hitched a lift around Cape Horn on a supply boat delivering a coffin, & in the high Andes she lived on a Vedic commune. From Easter in the slums to an eventful week on Robinson Crusoe Isl&, the author picks her way through the complex reality of South American Catholicism & the fragile peace of a newly born democracy. She also drinks a lot of wine. This improbable ribbon of land has been home to Andean tribes who remain the most scientifically neglected people in the world; it has been conquered by conquistadores, pillaged by Sir Francis Drake (no hero in Chile), exploited by foreign imperialists, blighted by the Panama Canal, governed by the world`s first democratically-elected Marxist president & stamped upon by one of this century`s most reviled dictators. &, as Sara Wheeler discovered, they have all left their mark on today`s Chile
- an extravagantly complex country, hidden behind the Andes & stretching to the end of the world. An extraordinary & very readable account about travelling alone & about the people & history of Chile.


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