Capo Horn

Francisco Coloane is the Jack London of the Patagonian steppes, Tierra del Fuego, and the stormy seas around Cape Horn. His Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World is the second collection of stories by him that I have read. Searching Abebooks.Com, I find that he is more frequently rea Leggi tutto

I have rarely read such a wonderful book. Coloane is fierce in his descriptions of the remote Tierra del Fuego, its humans and animals. Everything comes to life with this book in your hands. You find yourself at the end of the world, you feel the knife of the paranoid sheepherder, you smell the brea Leggi tutto

Questi racconti mi hanno spiazzata a tal punto che non saprei dire se mi sono piaciuti o meno. Il fatto è che la penna di Coloane è talmente efficace nel delineare i contorni di quelle terre estreme e degli animi - altrettanto estremi - che le popolano, da riuscire a trasmettere tutti gli stati d'ani Leggi tutto

Ho centellinato questo libro perché volevo non finisse mai. 5 stelle non sono abbastanza. Straordinario Coloane!!! Ho trovato un nuovo amore letterario.

What can I say? Coloane is dangerously good...so good, that you feel like moving to Patagonia to search for lost treasures or for the Selk nam trails...thieves at the end of the world...killing puppies for fur...colonizers burning the forests and killing natives to grow cattle...ruthless explorers.. Leggi tutto

The translation here is not quite as beautiful as the later Tierra del Fuego volume, but still incredible. Cape Horn has a few of the same stories and plenty that are unique to this book. Either is a good primer on ghostly encounters with loneliness in unforgiving lands.

Me ha gustado bastante, más de lo que pensaba. 14 cuentos que nos transportan a el hostil fin del mundo, Punta Arenas, la isla Navarino y sus alrededores. Coloane supo contar historias que te hacían sentir estar ahí mismo, unas historias tristes, otras de venganza, brutalidad y otras de compañerismo. Leggi tutto

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