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Table of contents :
Intro
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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
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