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Travel diary
Patagonia has always been a Land of Marvels that has caught people’s imagination, and in particular that of novelists. In fact the first people to write about it were adventurers and explorers. The latter – Ferdinando Magellano, but also Sebald De Weert, George Shelvocke and Thomas Faulkner – were struck above all by the region’s indigenous inhabitants, the so-called Patagonians (see The ancient Patagonians). Fascinated by its unconfined plains, Charles Darwin wrote: “everything makes you think that they have been unchanged for millennia and will remain so throughout time”.
And then it was the turn of the writers. It seems in fact that for some of them, affronting the “journey to Patagonia” was a sort of obligatory rite of passage, the ultimate test for comparing themselves with their predecessors, adding something new to a theme that had been repeated over and over again. A descent in the manner of Dante, into the hell of a lunar landscape and its creative vacuum.
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