At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
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Haven to Nazis, smugglersâ€™ paradise, home to some of the earthâ€™s oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurerâ€™s sang-froid, a historianâ€™s erudition, and a sense of irony so keen you could cut a finger on it, Gimlette celebrates the beauty, horror andâ€“yesâ€“charm of South Americaâ€™s obscure and remote â€œisland surrounded by land.â€

He takes readers from genteel drawing rooms in Asuncionâ€“where ladies still gossip about the nineteenth-century Irish adventuress who became Paraguayâ€™s Empress to the â€œGreen Hellâ€ of the Chaco, a vast, inhospitable tract populated by aging Mennonites and discouraged Indians. Replete with eccentrics and scoundrels, ecologically minded cannibals and utopians from every corner of the earth, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a madly entertaining book.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2005-03-08
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781400078523

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