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Topography. Geology and structure. Climate and soils. Vegetation. Patagonian steppe. Deciduous Forest. Evergreen forest. Magellanic Moorland. Alpine Vegetation. Littoral vegetation. Freshwater vegetation. Geographical affinities of the Flora. Systematic Account of the flora. Indian names and uses of plants. Spanish and english names.
Updated 2018 edition. Complete map of the area around the town of Ushuaia covering wonderful hiking trails in the area including the Yendegaia National Park on the Chile side of the border. Detailed topographic map 1:50.000 & 20 meter contours for hiking and trekking, printed as an atlas book (with overlapping pages). Day hikes and multi-day hiking routes. The southern part of the Tierra del Fuego National Park, Lago Fagnano, Laguna Esmeralda, Bahia Lapataia, Martial Glacier, Cerro Castor (Castor Mount), etc. 20 meter contour lines, road network, trails & paths, transportation, food, campsites, shelters, guest houses & hotels. Mercator projection with both UTM and WGS84 coordinate grids. The...
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Bridges' classic memoir details the incredible true story of his family's initial colonization of the town of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego and his lifetime of intimate interactions with the native indigenous people living there.
Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--"the uttermost end of the earth." Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story. The book describes how these intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding as ice-age Europe as they penetrated and settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the Aünikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yámana (Yahgan), and Kawashekar (Alaca...
A striking photographic testimonial to the people of Tierra del Fuego, a society defined by magic, spirits, and communion with nature