Wanderings in Patagonia or Life among the ostrichhunters Julius Beerbohm Books
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Wanderings in Patagonia or Life among the ostrichhunters Julius Beerbohm Books
Father of the famous essayist, critic, and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, Beerbohm senior had spent some time in Patagonia. There, he wrote this book and illustrated Lady Florence Dixie's RIDING ACROSS PATAGONIA, an equestrian classic that is still in print. Fortunately, Nonsuch Press resuscitated this early travel book which is well worth reading for aficionados of the Patagonian wastes.In WANDERINGS IN PATAGONIA, Julius Beerbohm writes about an overland journey he took between Puerto San Julian in the Argentine state of Santa Cruz to Punta Arenas in Chile (which he calls Sandy Point). A rank amateur, Beerbohm had no previous knowledge of the land, its flora and fauna. Fortunately, for the most part of the journey, he travelled with several old hands at ostrich hunting: the memorable pro Isidro, the Frenchman Guillaume, and the Austrian Maximo.
Most memorable are the several chapters in which the group is stuck on the north side of the Rio Gallegos (near the present day site of the city of the same name) which was experiencing what we would call a hundred-year flood. The group splits up, with Julius and Guillaume venturing a dangerous crossing, which almost drowns our author. Then, when they finally arrive in Sandy Point, the local prison -- along with its military guard -- mutinies, gets drunk, and takes over the town, killing many of its citizens.
Beerbohm's two encounters with Tehuelche Indians near the Rio Chico and the Strait of Magellan are well written, with some excellent characterizations.
When pushed to it, Beerbohm is also capable of some memorable prose. In Chapter V, he writes:
"It seemed like an unfinished portion of the globe, the very skeleton of a landscape. The outlines were there, indeed, the framework of the intended structure. There were bold hills, sheltered valleys, isolated peaks, deep basins; but over all was silence and desolation, all was empty and void. The finishing touch was withheld, -- the last touch which was to have softened and modulated those rugged contours, clothing their barrenness with verdure, filling the dry basins with clear water, and bringing life and gladness to what was now lying in sad and eternal deathliness."
The only negative note -- other than the book's slow start -- is Beerbohm's rather obvious racist attitudes toward peoples with whom he was not familiar, notable the Chilotes (inhabitants of the island of Chiloe) and the Indians of Tierra Del Fuego. Having just finished E. Lucas Bridge's great book, THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH, in which both groups were extolled, I tend to trust Bridges more. He actually lived with them.
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Wanderings in Patagonia or Life among the ostrichhunters Julius Beerbohm Books Reviews
Father of the famous essayist, critic, and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, Beerbohm senior had spent some time in Patagonia. There, he wrote this book and illustrated Lady Florence Dixie's RIDING ACROSS PATAGONIA, an equestrian classic that is still in print. Fortunately, Nonsuch Press resuscitated this early travel book which is well worth reading for aficionados of the Patagonian wastes.
In WANDERINGS IN PATAGONIA, Julius Beerbohm writes about an overland journey he took between Puerto San Julian in the Argentine state of Santa Cruz to Punta Arenas in Chile (which he calls Sandy Point). A rank amateur, Beerbohm had no previous knowledge of the land, its flora and fauna. Fortunately, for the most part of the journey, he travelled with several old hands at ostrich hunting the memorable pro Isidro, the Frenchman Guillaume, and the Austrian Maximo.
Most memorable are the several chapters in which the group is stuck on the north side of the Rio Gallegos (near the present day site of the city of the same name) which was experiencing what we would call a hundred-year flood. The group splits up, with Julius and Guillaume venturing a dangerous crossing, which almost drowns our author. Then, when they finally arrive in Sandy Point, the local prison -- along with its military guard -- mutinies, gets drunk, and takes over the town, killing many of its citizens.
Beerbohm's two encounters with Tehuelche Indians near the Rio Chico and the Strait of Magellan are well written, with some excellent characterizations.
When pushed to it, Beerbohm is also capable of some memorable prose. In Chapter V, he writes
"It seemed like an unfinished portion of the globe, the very skeleton of a landscape. The outlines were there, indeed, the framework of the intended structure. There were bold hills, sheltered valleys, isolated peaks, deep basins; but over all was silence and desolation, all was empty and void. The finishing touch was withheld, -- the last touch which was to have softened and modulated those rugged contours, clothing their barrenness with verdure, filling the dry basins with clear water, and bringing life and gladness to what was now lying in sad and eternal deathliness."
The only negative note -- other than the book's slow start -- is Beerbohm's rather obvious racist attitudes toward peoples with whom he was not familiar, notable the Chilotes (inhabitants of the island of Chiloe) and the Indians of Tierra Del Fuego. Having just finished E. Lucas Bridge's great book, THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH, in which both groups were extolled, I tend to trust Bridges more. He actually lived with them.
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