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

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Indexed, double-sided map from ITMB combining coverage of the whole of Patagonia in Argentina & Chile at 1:2, 000, 000 with mapping of the southern half of Chile at 1:1, 750, 000, plus a street plan of Ushuaia. On one side is a map of Patagonia south of Bahia Blanca in Argentina & Temuco in Chile. Altitude colouring shows the topography, with graphics for salt pans & swamps, plus plenty of names of individual mountain ranges, & other topographic features. National parks & protected areas are highlighted. The map shows the road & rail networks, local airports & airfields, as well as ferry routes across the Chilean fjords. Border crossing points across the Andes are clearly marked. Local administrative boundaries are shown with names of the provinces. Symbols highlight various places of interest. The map has latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 1° & is indexed. On the reverse is a similar map of southern Chile with the whole of Tierra del Fuego, presented on two overlapping panels at 1:1, 750, 000. Coverage extends slightly further north than on the Patagonia side. Each panel has a separate index. Also provided is a street plan of Ushuaia’s town centre, indicating various facilities, please of interest & selected accommodation. Another inset shows the south-western part of the Easter Island at 1:38, 000. ...

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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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

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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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Popular areas of Chile in a series of contoured, GPS compatible trekking & exploration maps at various scales form Trekkingchile. The maps are annotated with tourist information & most titles include a street plan of the region’s main town. Many are illustrated with drawings of local fauna or flora. All the maps use satellite imagery as a base, with contour lines & colouring to indicate different types of terrain & habitats. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual descriptions, the maps have a UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude. Map legends & other text include English.* For more information please see individual descriptions.* ...

Chilean Lakes District in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...