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A voyage of paper and film
Bibliography on Patagonia
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• Novels or Accounts
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin – Paul Theroux, Patagonia Revisited
Francisco Coloane, Cape Horn
Francisco Coloane, Los pasos del hombre
Francisco Coloane, Tierra del fuego
Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage
Thomas Falkner, A Description of Patagonia
Mempo Giardinelli, Final de novela en Patagonia
W.H. Hudson, Idle days in Patagonia
Andrés Neuman, Bariloche
Luis Sepulveda, Patagonia Express
Luis Sepulveda, Historias marginales
• Travels
Antonella Cerri
Patagonia e Terra del fuoco
Ed. Vallardi
Gino Buscaini e Silvia Metzelin
Patagonia: terra magica per viaggiatori e alpinisti
Ed. Corbaccio
Silvia Metzelin
Polvere nelle scarpe. Storie di Patagonia
Ed. Corbaccio
Alberto De Agostini
Ai limiti del mondo. In Patagonia e Terra del fuoco
Museo della montagna
Bernard Moitessier
A Sea Vagabond’s World
Ed. Mursia
Marcelo Beccaceci
Patagonia Wilderness
Ed. Pangaea
Jasmine Rossi
The wild shores of Patagonia
Ed. N. Abrams
Guillermo Cox
Trip to the northern Regions of the Patagonia
Ed. Elefante Blanco
• Sociology
Colin MacEwan
Patagonia: Natural history, Prehistory and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth.
Princeton University Press
Claudia Briones and José Luis Lanta
Contemporary perspectives on the native Peoples of Pampa, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego: Living on the Edge
Ed. Claudia Briones
• History
German Sopegna
Monsignor Patagonia
Ed. Elefante Blanco
Carlos Pedro Vairo and Francis Gatti
Oro en la Tierra del Fuego
Ed. Zagier & Urruty
Pedro Navarro Floria
Historia de la Patagonia
Ed. Tapa Blanda
Andreas Madsen
La Patagonia vieja
Ed. Zagier & Urruty
• Cook books
Maria Baez Kijac
The South American Table. The Flavor and soul of authentic home cooking from Patagonia to Rio de Janeiro
Harvard Common Press
Carlos Pedro Vairo
Patagonian and Fuegian cookbook
Ed. Zagier & Urruty
Bonifacio M. Perret
Comer en Patagonia
Ed. S.C. di Bariloche
• Films about Argentina
Alambrado (Fenced In) by Marco Bechis (1991): A father and his two children lived in isolation a few kilometers away from the Strait of Magallanes where the wind blows at 150 km/h.
Anni ribelli (Laura: The rebel years) by Rosalia Polizzi (1993): A film about an adolescent growing up in a Sicilian family who has emigrated to Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires vice versa by Alejandro Agresti (1993): The story of two teenagers, children of desaparecidos after the 1976 coup, who try to put an end to their anxieties.
Caballos salvajes (Wild horses) by Marcelo Pineyro (1995): After a sixty year old is defrauded by an insurance company so he staged robbery along the lines of “Sugarland express”.
De eso no se habla (I don’t want to talk about it) by M.L.Bemberg (1993): Set in the 40s. A mature womanizer marries a young dwarf.
Evita by Alan Parker (1996): The story of Eva Duarte (who later became Peroni) right up to her death in 1952. Based on the musical of the same name by Webber, screenplay by Tim Rice.
Eversmile, New Jersey by Carlos Sorin (1989): An Irish dentist sent to Patagonia to spread dental culture loses his job and wife, but…
Garage Olimpo by Marco Bechis (1999): The story of a garage the torture during the dictatorship.
Scream of stone by Werner Herzog (1991): The story of a climb of Patagonia’s Cerro Torre by two rival climbers from different schools.
Diarios de motocicletta (The Motorcycle Diaries) by Walter Salles (2004): 1952, Ernesto Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado go traveling together around South America by motorcycle.
El viaje (The journey) by Fernando E.Solanas (1992): A young man leaves Ushuaia to search for his father throughout South America (music by Astor Piazzolla).
La noche de los lapices (Night of the pencils) by H.Olivera (1988): The true story of desaparecidos students, their imprisonment and their death.
La nube (Clouds) by Fernando Solanas (1998)
La ciéniaga (The swamp) by Lucrecia Martel (2001): Two families spend the summer in a huge, crumbling country house in northwest Argentina.
La peste (The Plague) by Luis Puenzo (1992): The end of 1800, in a city in south South America an epidemic cuts off three strange characters.
La historia official (The official story) by Luis Puenzo (1985): The wife of a military man discovers that her adoptive daughter is really the child of desaparecidos. Oscar 1986
The Tango lesson by Sally Potter (1997): Filmed in Paris and Buenos Aires the director goes to tango lessons to make a movie.
La Patagonia rebelde (Rebellion in Patagonia) by Pino Solanas: Repression of the rebellion of the guachos in southern Argentina.
Sur (The South) by Fernando Ezequiel Solanas (1988): Buenos Aires 1983, a young proletarian freed at the end of the dictatorship, after 5 years of prison, learns to live again.
Tangos (The exile of Gardel) by Fernando Solanas (1985): Argentinean exiles in Paris put on a “Tanghedia”, a little tango, a little tragedy, a little comedy.
Un lugar en el mundo (A Place in the world) by Aristarain (1991): The life of a teacher during the military dictatorship (1975-1984).
Valentin by Alejandro Agresti (2004): A child grows up in Buenos Aires during the 60s.
(19/10/2005)
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