Desert Memories 9781426209024, 1426209029
The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything tha
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English Pages 153 Year 2011
Table of contents :
Intro
ALSO BY ARIEL DORFMAN
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE: Opening in Arica: Circling Back
FIRST PART: ORIGINS
Footprint in the South
Star Prospectors
Cemeteries Under the Moon
SECOND PART: GHOSTS
Nomads of Nitrate
Time for a Story
Mountain of Fire
Under the Sand
THIRD PART: BODIES
Preservation Blues
Family Secrets
Finding Freddy
EPILOGUE: Footsteps in the North: Arica and Beyond
Acknowledgments, Along with a Final Story
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
