The Uttermost Part of the Earth

by Lucas Bridges

Rapturous praise met the publication of Lucas Bridges' marvelous chronicle of Tierra del Fuego when it first came out in 1947, and that praise has hardly abated these past sixty years, nor has a book been written which supplants Uttermost Part of the Earth as the classic work on Tierra del Fuego and the little-known culture of the now-extinct Fuegian Indians.

When the author was born in Tierra del Fuego in 1874, it was truly an unknown land. On the southern coast was the small settlement established by his missionary parents; the rest of it, over 18,000 square miles of mountain, forest, marsh, and lake, was the hunting ground of fierce and hostile tribes. Bridges grew up amongst the coastal Yaghans, learning their language and their ways. In young manhood he made contact with the wild inland Ona tribe, became their friend and hunting companion, and was initiated into the men's lodge.

Surely the New York Times' critics's prediction for this book on its first publication has come true: "I have no doubt that Uttermost Part of the Earth will achieve a permanent place in the literature of several subjects: adventure, anthropology, and frontier history." Indeed it is still the essential work and indispensable introduction for anyone yearning to experience the breathtaking remoteness and stunning landscapes of this far-flung wilderness at the "uttermost part of the earth."

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, History, Adventure, Biography, World History, Memoir

First published January 1, 1948

Reviews

[Gavin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been telling people while completing this book that it's one of the top three I've ever read, and now having no story left to discover and longing for more, it's quite safe to say that this is the best book I have ever read.

Definitely an instance of the right book at the right time.

As I am heading to Ushuaia (Argentina) at the height of their winter in a few months, I read online whisperings that this was a great book about the local history and decided to check it out. I obtained it from my university library (they had to retrieve it from long-term book storage, can you believe it) and was immediately excited to start reading it when I leafed through the pages and saw the abundance of period photos and old maps - absolute literary eye candy.

The author's father was the first long-term settler in Tierra del Fuego, and the author was the second European ever born there. As such, he was in a prime position to see the conversion of this wild land and its prehistoric tribes into a lawful and civilized nation. This is certainly a lamentable time due to the loss of language, culture, and some of the untamed, pastoral beauty of the southernmost part of South America, but indeed Bridges points out that the spread of civilization was inevitable and that his goal was, with his family and community, to ensure that this transition went as smoothly as possible.

Bridges writes beautifully and is modest to a fault. He refrains from subjective opinion when he quite rightly could have fully supported the European interests, or even more likely the interests of the naive but earnest Ona Indians - he knew and appreciated the language and customs of the native Ona (and Yahgans) better than all but the natives themselves.

But nowhere in non-fiction literature, I believe, exists a more perfect combination of themes - exploration of unknown lands, Native American history and culture, strange language, frontier living, etc. etc. It was a time that I am utterly sick with envy that Bridges got to experience firsthand. To be the first white man to tread those mountain paths, to learn a dying language from birth and compile a dictionary before it perished from the Earth, to hunt guanaco with the natives and camp simply in the wilderness for weeks straight, to pour year after year of sweat into establishing a harmonious and productive society, and to fully dedicate your heart to such a noble effort…. I don't know what more to say other than a profound, profound thank you to Lucas Bridges for taking the time to write this incredible, beautiful memoir before he passed so that it might be appreciated by the world. Wow.

[Doug Thayer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better Than Huck Finn, November 10, 200
This is a fun, true-life adventure book! I started reading it after reading "The Voyage of the Beagle" and reading about Fitzroy and the Voyage of the Beagle in other books, thus becoming interested in the Fuegan indians captured by Fitzroy and taken to London. I stumbled on this book. This book is a sleeper! I don't understand why it is not more well known. This writer has a way of making points through understatement that is quite funny at times. If you like reading about Shakleton in "Endurance" or Josh Sloacum's books you will absolutely love this book. This book gives you a perspective on the american indians from an insider's view I have never seen anywhere else. Absolutely fascinating. I want to drop everything and go see Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

[Juan Nalerio · Rating 4 out of 5]

El autor, nacido en Ushuaia en 1874 narra primero la relación de su padre con los yaganes y luego su personal relación con los onas hasta el comienzo de la primera guerra mundial.

La obra es autobiografía, ensayo, descripción antropológica. Una visión parcial de lo sucedido en ese hermoso confín de nuestra América.

El libro va contando como la mano del conquistador va moldeando la naturaleza. Los habitantes primigenios fueron exterminados, capturados o sometidos a las misiones. Triste final para los verdaderos dueños de esa tierra.

Imposible no sentir empatía por los onas. Se describen con detalle sus costumbres, su forma de ser y sus luchas fraticidas. Interesante lectura.

[Elyse · Rating 5 out of 5]

This memoir really does take place in the "Uttermost Part of the Earth" (the southernmost tip of South America). The author, born 1874 in Ushuaia to English missionary parents, is as closely bonded to the local Native Americans as a white man can be. He was especially fascinated by the fierce Ona tribe. Unlike many white men at that time, he was sympathetic to their plight as European settlers steadily encroached upon their territory. Wrapped in guanaco skins (a very feisty relative of the llama) and guanaco helmets, the Ona hunted their prey using bow and arrow. They had legends but worshiped no gods. Using droll humor, the author really "got into the heads" of these primeval people. It's like no other book I've ever read.

[Matthew Sutton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not sure where to start in any attempt to do justice to this gem of a book.

When I saw the 4.6 rating here my first impression was that the book must be good if a bit overrated. But having just put it down I honestly can't think of a better, or more pleasurable memoir I've read--though I can recommend many.

This book is a treasure.

I'll start by simply describing the book. The book is mainly a rancher's story of his youth and that of his family in settling a forbidding land at the "uttermost part of the Earth." Spoilers follow.

The book's author was the second white man born in Tierra del Fuego. His English father was the missionary who founded the present day town of Ushuaia. The book begins with a history of Anglican missionary activity from the Falklands in the mid-1800s in the wake of Darwin's visit in the HMS Beagle.

Eventually his father establishes the successful mission of Ushuaia in the 1870s, and with it soon afterwards begins nascent governmental presence of Argentina in Tierra del Fuego. While his eldest sister was born in England, all the subsequent Bridges children would be born Argentines in Ushuaia. Throughout the early years of establishing a farthest outpost of civilization in a wild land his meticulous and exacting father compiled an exhaustive dictionary of the local Yahgan language which in itself becomes subject of an interesting subplot and postscript.

In the 1880s the expanding family relocated to a new settlement they established at "Harberton" (named for his mother's Welsh hometown) due east of Ushuaia, and his aging father retires from the mission to become a sheep rancher. After years establishing a viable sheep ranch at Harberton, operations continue to expand. Once their ailing father dies the three sons all take on various aspects of the ambitious family enterprises. The eldest brother Despard takes over as patriarch and directly controls Harberton's finances and is the primary carpenter. Lucas (the author) is a tireless, courageous pioneer and leaves to explore, open up, and fence lands further east at Cambaceres. Meanwhile the youngest brother Will handles most ranch operations and oversees operations on islands in the Beagle channel.

While working in isolation at Cambaceres the author becomes better and better acquainted with the feared, Stone Age interior tribe of the Ona (Shelknam). After many suspenseful encounters the author takes to living and hunting with the Ona and becomes increasingly comfortable around them, becoming, as his father with the Yahgan a generation before, fluent in the Ona language.

Realizing the ambitious and ever-growing family will one day outgrow Harberton the author suggests that the brothers begin a ranch north of the forbidding mountain ranges and desolate moors around Lake Fagnano on the windswept prairie land beyond. After much reluctance the pioneering Lucas gets his way and he takes it upon himself to build a serviceable track from Harberton on the Beagle channel, all the way across the interior mountains to Najmishk on the Atlantic coast.

Much of the book focuses on his time working on the "road to Najmishk" with only his Ona companions, and finally getting an ultimately successful ranch started and surveyed at Viamonte. At least a third of this engrossing memoir is a study of the Ona: their customs, their sense of propriety, their superstitions, their woodcraft, hunting, and tracking skills, their mythologies, their language...the terrible massacres and vendettas amongst their bands. It's a moving, reverent tribute to an extinct culture.

The book ends around 1910 though post-scripts reveal the author to have lead an equally extraordinary life afterwards--volunteered for WW1, traveled all over Europe, began one of largest ranches on earth in Rhodesia which he immediately handed over to Despard in order to quickly return to South America to rescue a failing ranching enterprise in Chile, hunting trips with brother-in-law with the Gaurani natives of Paraguay, etc etc.

It's an amazing story told with a wry sense of humor and in plain, simple prose. It's the narrative of an ambitious pioneer family, but also of shipwrecks with miraculous survivals, shipwrecks with tragic endings, deeds and land claims, greedy miners, dangerous escaped convicts, epidemics, murders, massacres, wife abductions, peace ceremonies, lucky hunts, attempted horse suicides, miserable wet nights hungry in the forest, dangerous river crossings, atrocious weather, close calls and suspenseful encounters in the forest--all related with compelling humanity. It's a beautiful book with lovely binding, ample maps, illustrations and photos, and beautiful text printed on heavy paper.

It's a difficult memoir to describe: equal parts Little House on the Prairie, Dances with Wolves, Levi-Strauss ethnology, Swiss family Robinson; its prose is unadorned but effective. There are moving passages such as the understated, self-consciously ridiculous description of the hauling of the author's elderly mother in a litter over the high pass on the road to Estancia Viamonte and stopping so this frail, elderly woman from Wales could look out for presumably her final time at the forlorn landscape where she spent her adult life raising a family and becoming matriarch to so much. Another highlight is the passage about the merry shipwrecked sailors or the skilled, Ona bird hunter's affectionately muttered comment of "my land" on noticing a sunset in the mountains.

[Joseph]

Sounds like racism and exotification (of a murdered people no less) of the worst kind.

"When the author was born in Tierra del Fuego in 1874, it was truly an unknown land." (Except of course to all the people who'd lived there for thousands of years).

[Noreen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic: True history. Incredible family. An anthropological study of a people for a lifetime. Interesting how the women swam, the men didn’t.

[Judith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don Lucas Bridges was born in Tierra del Fuego, son of a missionary couple, late in the 19th c. when the territory was governed (but not really) by Chile and Argentina. Ushuaia was an Indian settlement,the Bridges family themselves began others that are towns today. An utterly fascinating memoir of growing up (and remaining) in this difficult land, learning the various Indian languages and habits, making terms with warring clan and tribal groups, trying to preserve their way of life in the face of steady incursion of sheep and cattle operations run by Argentines, Brits, a few Chileans. Few people pass this way, near the notoriously cold, gale-wracked Cape Horn passage -- the Beagle Channel (named for Darwin's ship) is one way to evade the worst. So the Bridges family rescued many shipwrecked mariners, learned to sail smallish boats in these treacherous waters. The sons learned to hunt, fish, track, and often spent months alone with remaining Indian groups as the family established its dairy and sheep operations.

[Emily Hartman · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW - this book is a world treasure. Bridges lived an incredible life that the reader gets the unique privilege to come along with. You will know what native Indian life in the coldest inhabited part of the world is like to the point you can smell the campfires and taste the guanaco meat. So many vivid images and extremely interesting stories painted here. This book deserves far more notoriety and is completely worthy of the grand Patagonian setting it is written against. A book only for the true book lovers and world explorers.

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good autobiography of Lucas Bridges, the son of a Missionary, and one of the first Europeans to settle in Tierra del Fuego. Bridges describes the founding of Ushuaia, his childhood, growing up to hunt with the Yamana and Ona people, and his role in establishing a ranch. The book works on many levels - as a history of Ushuaia, as a narrative of the native peoples, and as the history of a prominent family.

[Kit · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the definitive book on the life of the early European settlers of Tierra del Fuego and of the way of life of the native people who lived there, many of whom are now extinct. As such, it is fascinating. But, for me at least, the book way way too long and dragged on so much that I couldn't finish it. Others have found it fascinating all the way through, though.

[Lgordo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a DNF because it was long, the library wanted it back, and it didn't quite meet expectations.

Granted, my expectations were wrong. I was hoping to learn more about the natives of Tierra Del Fuego, but this was really a pioneering story; anything you learn about the natives is incidental except for one chapter about 3/4 through. There he does give a summary of culture and that met my needs.

The narrative itself wasn't bad, but lacked the necessary ranconteuring skill. It was not as hilarious as Twain, didn't have the color of Steinbeck, though I grant those are high standards to hold a memoir too. He had some great punchlines, but on the whole tends toward understatements.

I found that while reading it I had trouble putting it down, but once down I had trouble picking it up, so I'm giving up. It's taking too long.

[Jack Barrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome awesome book that anyone interested in/traveling to Tierra del Fuego should read

[Tom Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exhaustive account of pioneer life amongst the native tribes of Tierra Del Fuego. Took me a long time to plow through the pages - due more to my shortcomings (nothing short about a long trip to Ohio - the planning alone was epic, humorous to think how I would have coped in the land of Mr. Bridges) than to those of the book. E. Lucas Bridges, Renaissance man, an indefatigable manly man, gritty, unflappable, an ace writer and a resourceful redoubtable rancher. The author's life story, his astute decades-long observations of the Ona and Yahgan, his harrowing adventures and hazardous journeys through an unforgiving land of extremes. As tough as the author was the Indians were even more amazing. Their ability to thrive in such a hostile environment, virtually in the nude, beggars belief. A cute vignette from the bottom of page 63, "These Yahgan women swam like a dog and had no difficulty in getting through the kelp. I have never seen a white man foolhardy enough to attempt this dangerous feat. They learnt to swim in infancy, and were taken out by their mothers in order to get them used to it. In winter, when the kelp leaves were coated with a film of frost, a baby girl, out with her mother, would sometimes make pick-a-back swimming difficult by climbing onto her parent's head to escape the the cold water and frozen kelp." Interesting note: killer whales oft times fed the Yahgan. The victims of the orca either beached themselves in terror or washed ashore dead. The Yahgan then feasted. Though his father was a missionary, ELB was suspicious of interloping "men of God" and kept them under close watch. I liked that. His father taught him well. Page 487 starts one of the most heartwarming shaggy dog stories ever. The book offers treat after treat.

[Eric Phillips · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm surprised I picked up this book, and even more surprised that I kept wanting to read every word of it. I started reading this before taking a trip to Patagonia because I wanted a local history book that focused heavily on the indigenous people. It is essentially a primary source, one that I would normally only read an excerpt of in a secondary-source history book. And it must be read as a primary source; there are various outdated aspects of the author's thinking, including some antiquated attitudes towards women. That being said, I was surprised by how compelling the anthropological focus of this memoir is, and with the crispness of the writing and storytelling. This book presents a continuous string of well-written and fascinating stories about the experience of missionaries "settling" far off lands, and of the lives and cultures of the indigenous people who lived there for millennia. The author lived practically within these indigenous communities (namely the Ona) for long stretches of his life, and paints an admiring but unvarnished picture of Ona society, warts and all. One is left impressed by many aspects of Ona society and culture, but also horrified at others (like all human cultures, there is beauty and knowledge but also violence). The experience of reading this book is also made the more powerful by a persistent haunting one feels as a reader knowing that the Ona are today extinct and that the book is really telling the story of their final few generations.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can understand why this book has been called the best source of info on the Ona Indians, and to a lesser extent the Yahgan Indians of Tierra del Fuego. The author lived and worked among them closely. Ironic that while he hoped to protect them from white settlers pushing south in Argentina, his own family's mission work in Ushuaia and ranch in Harberton was the beginning of the end for them, despite their best efforts to create a place for them to work if they chose to. As in the U.S., "....they succumbed like flies to the diseases brought by civilization." Particularly measles.

The descriptions of the personalities of various Ona friends are so detailed and moving that a reader feels connected to them. This is an unforgettable book and I'm sure I will re-read it.

I wish we had visited Harberton, the family's first ranch, when we visited Tierra del Fuego in January 2012. Both Estancia Harberton (http://www.estanciaharberton.com/home...) & Estancia Viamonte (http://www.estanciaviamonte.com/) are open to the public, you can even stay there. Since I began this book, a Facebook page for it has been established by another enthusiast at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Uttermo....

[Bill Leach · Rating 4 out of 5]

The author's father, Thomas Bridges, was the first European settler of Tierra Del Fuego. From an initial settlement at Ushuaia, a move to Harberton which became a longer term home. Later, a new ranch was developed at Najmishk Land which evolved into the Estancia Viamonte. Bridges chronicles the family history over the 120 year period.

The book is arranged as 51 chapters subdivided into typically 5 sections. Each is an anecdote of life at the time, most involving the country, the wildlife, the people and the ways of life.

The natives figure prominently in the book. The Yaghans were coastal, living in the area of the first settlements.The Ona lived to the north, with tribes in the mountains and others on the plains. The Yagans had an especially complete language, exceeding 32,000 words. Thomas Bridges created a dictionary of their language which was eventually published.

A fascinating read.

[Bernie_dunham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Motivated by Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle," I'm researching Tierra Dell Fuego, the southern most tip of South America, terminating at Cape Horn. The subtitle is "A History of Tierra Del Fuego and the Fuegians." The Fuegians are the native population of Tierra Del Fuego, now extinct, described by Darwin in "Beagle." "Uttermost Part of the Eart" is regarded the best sourcebook about the region and the former population.

[Vivian Witkind · Rating 3 out of 5]

According to the flyleaf, this is the classic work on Tierra del Fuego and its inhabitants. Published in 1948, it recounts the history of the isolated and primitive Fuegian land from the 1880s on. The book is a highly personal history of the author and his family. It refutes Darwin's first impression of the inhabitants of the southernmost point of South America. Yes,they were primitive; no, they were not cannibals. At over 500 pages, however, the book gives me more than I want to know.

[Apostate · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this because it dealt with the Yahgan, a people supposedly without religion of any kind (sadly this is not true). 'Uttermost' is a fascinating & moving account of an Englishman growing up in largely in Tierra Del Fuego amidst the dying aborigines of extreme southern South America. Their cultures & languages were rapidly passing away when the author was a youth & he was in the right place & time to write this touching work.

[Lee Belbin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the July 1951 version of this amazing book. It is a totally unique insight into the Indians of Tierra Del Fuego by the son of the first British Farmer to his property Ushuaia. In my top 10 books of all time! A MUST read. I read this as a background to writing a paper on the detection of the bending of the tip of South America using palaeomagetics.

[Tamara Covacevich · Rating 5 out of 5]

El mejor libro que he leído, por lejos. Creo que ningún escrito de ficción podría mejorar estas memorias, increíble. Debería ser lectura obligatoria en todos los colegios de la región. No sé que escribir porque es imposible transmitir lo bueno que es este libro, para mí tiene aún mas valor por haber pasado muchas veces por esas tierras en su estado actual civilizado, y leer cómo eran antes, los nombres originales, sus habitantes.. uff. Los que lo lean en español, si les interesa la geografía de tierra del fuego, recomiendo leerlo junto a este mapa (https://journals.openedition.org/nuev...) que viene adjunto en la 1era edición inglesa (que tengo la suerte de tener por estar en la biblioteca regional de mi abuelo, aunque lo leí en español, la original tendrá que esperar). Ahora espero leer el señor del Baker, la biografía de Bridge, para saber que fue de él después (el libro cuenta hasta 1910).

A propósito de la alta comercialización que veo con imágenes de los onas/selknam en Chile, esta cita:

"En las reuniones del Hain, el factor tiempo no importaba. Se pasaban días enteros en charlas futiles, organizando ceremonias aparentemente infantiles. No advertí que muy en breve estos ritos debían terminar para siempre. El avance de la civilización puso en descubierto el secreto de la logia, tan celosamente guardado por innumerables generaciones. Las mujeres se enteraron del engaño y los indios fuero inducidos, mediante algún dinero, a representar sus comedias ante auditorios científicos. He visto fotografías en que los actores aparecen con pelo corto y pintados como nunca lo estuvieron en mis tiempos. Otras fotografías, que pretendían ser de primitivos onas salvajes, probaban que muchos de los indios de las nuevas generaciones habían olvidado, si alguna vez lo supieron, la forma correcta de usar una piel de guanaco"

[Athena Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this after returning from a vacation to Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego.. the book is a vivid memoir of Lucas Bridges and his family who started the first britich mission in Ushuaia in "fireland." Judge as we might by today's standards, the Bridges appear to have been way ahead of their time.

"IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER WE SAW EXAMPLES OF THREE METHODS OF approach to the Indian problem in the Tierra del Fuego of the 1890s: the first, extermination; the second, heart-breaking captivity; the third, friendly co-operation based on patiently fostered goodwill, with sympathetic acceptance of the Indians' right to live their lives after their own fashion in the country that was their birthright."

The author shares many tales of running through the fuegian forest and steppe with his Ona friends (referred to in Chilean Patagonia more often as Selknam). Additionally, the themes of adventure, hard work, and type II fun are strong...

"It was one of father's axioms that a change of work is as good as a rest... (so instead of doing fencing on Sundays, Tom and I went after guanaco meat or to inspect the cattle.)"

I also appreciated the references to the enjoyment of luxuries such as sugar, coffee, and cocoa after a hard days run on the "track" through the woods.

This book is a journey and if I ever return to Tierra del Fuego, I will surely visit the Haberton Estancia, Viamonte, and other places where trails remain from this time.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book up at Harberton, the ranch that Lucas Bridges's father Thomas established in Tierra del Fuego at the turn of the 19th century. It's utterly absorbing, baffling, and illuminating. I can't get a firm handle on Bridges's politics—he's simultaneously invested in preserving the Ona/Selk'naam way of life for as long as possible, and becomes true family to them, but in another breath he'll praise an upland Argentine general for a successful "campaign" against the northern tribes. How did Bridges reconcile these two positions? Perhaps it's the same state of mind that allowed him to both condemn the rancher "McInch" for his scalping expeditions, and give him a pseudonym so that his offspring aren't shamed by their father's sins against the Indigenous. The book was written several decades after the events of the book—and in some cases before Bridges's own birth—so I'm never quite sure whether we're getting the opinion of the mature Bridges, and how much that might differ from that of the young Bridges who, he says, wanted nothing more than to run off and live with his Ona friends.

One of the last real glimpses into the lives of the Indigenous tribes of Tierra del Fuego, both Yamana (named Yahgan by Thomas Bridges) and Selk'naam (similarly named Ona for unknown reasons), from a white man who in his own complicated, colonially-tinged way managed to earn their trust. Highly recommended for anyone winging their way southwards.

[Noah Harrington · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating read. Eye opening account of a missionary settling in Tierra del Fuego and their interaction/assimilation with the indigenous peoples (Fuegian Indians) there. Crazy these accounts were not much more than a century ago. Helps to put into perspective the timeline with which humanity has developed so rapidly over the past few hundred years, due to imperialistic expansion and globalization. This book also does well to note the spirituality and knowledge of the indigenous peoples Bridges lived alongside, something I thoroughly enjoyed and feel many would benefit from understanding.

[Livia]

Lucas Bridges's book bears witness to the life of the men from Tierra del Fuego and their evil massacre. Lucas was born in that part of the earth. Thanks to him we can read about Fuegians who lived twelve thousand years and in 50 years almost all of them were massacred. Lucas having a mentality of the European conqueror, develops human feelings towards them. It is devastating how the original peoples have been destroyed at the hands of white Europeans.

[Paige]

dnf @ pg. 102 - I might pick this up again later, but I just wasn’t interested enough in the topic to read 500+ pages about it. This book was really unique, especially when you consider the perspective it’s written from, but I don’t feel like reading it right now. Also the detailed paragraphs about hunting animals hurt my vegetarian soul :’(

[Michal Leon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super interesting read about unusual and courageous lives - in particular of the father of the author - who went into unchartered territories, against many setbacks, in a setting that is harsh and dangeorous - the southern most part of Patagonia.

I read this while travelling in Patagonia and found it exciting and informative. But also wonderful to know that if you're in Ushuaia you can actually take a day trip (or overnight) to Harberton, the farm this family started - and enjoy seeing for yourself. There is a marine life museum and research centre and guided tours. It no longer is a sheep farm, but the old shearing equipment is still on display, alongside many pieces of appliances, cars and machines that served the farm and the family for decades.

[Carlos Wulf · Rating 4 out of 5]

De todas maneras un “must” para quien quiera conocer la historia de la Patagonia, de los selknam y yaganes. Si buscas conocer cómo se dio la colonización de la parte más austral de nuestro continente este libro será un gran aliado.

100% recomendable.

[Juan Idiazabal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Si quieren saber cómo se fundó el primer asentamiento en lo que hoy es Ushuaia y cómo evolucionó la vida en la Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, entonces este es el libro que hay que leer. Una excelente crónica escrita por uno de los miembros de la familia que comenzó la aventura fueguina.