Patagonia: 81 books

Cover of Humor y sabiduría: no tomarse demasiado en serio a sí mismo
by Walter Riso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2014

“Humor y sabiduría: no tomarse demasiado en serio a sí mismo” es un ensayo que repasa las estrategias del humor para alcanzar la sabiduría. Como Walter Riso señala: “Puede haber humor sin sabiduría, pero no lo contrario. Las tradiciones espirituales más conocidas de oriente y la filosofía...
Cover of ¿Reír o llorar?: Heráclito v/s Demócrito
by Walter Riso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2014

La vida, según Walter Riso puede ser vista como un teatro donde interpretamos distintos papeles. Podemos actuar una tragedia o una comedia. La forma de afrontar la existencia te ubica en un género o en el otro: optimismo o pesimismo; satisfacción o melancolía; ilusión o desesperanza; burla o...
Cover of Mentes rígidas v/s mentes flexibles
by Walter Riso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2014

En el artículo “Mentes rígidas v/s mentes flexibles” de la colección Camino Interior, Walter Riso analiza la estructura interna de las mentes estrechas que, de acuerdo a las investigaciones, es una maraña de esquemas negativos y entrelazados, que son un peligro para la salud mental, tanto para quien la padece como para la sociedad entera.
Cover of The Wolverine Way
by Douglas H. Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013

Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine...
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The Imperiled Cutthroat

Tracing the Fate of Yellowstone's Native Trout

by Greg French
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

Yellowstone, the world’s first national park and one of America’s truly great trout fisheries, has been a crucible for ideas on how to look after wild places. Renowned Australian fishing writer Greg French gives a sparkling firsthand account of how the park’s history, landscapes, wildlife, and...
Cover of Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968

Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968

Reflections on the Lost Photos of the Third Ascent

by Yvon Chouinard, Dick Dorworth, Chris Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013

This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the climb, places it in the social and climbing context...
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No Bad Waves

Talking Story with Mickey Munoz

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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013

Mickey Muñoz has been called the “surfer’s surfer,” and is loved and respected among the cognoscenti for his contributions to surfing and the surfing life for the past 60 years as a surfer, a pioneer of Waimea Bay, a stuntman (stand-in for Gidget), a board shaper and designer, and as a sailor and...
Cover of Tracking Gobi Grizzlies

Tracking Gobi Grizzlies

Surviving Beyond the Back of Beyond

by Douglas Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016

In the tradition of Douglas Chadwick's best-selling adventure memoir, The Wolverine Way, Tracking Gobi Grizzlies creates a portrait of these rarest of bears' fight for survival in one of the toughest, most remote settings on Earth. He demonstrates why saving this endangered animal supports an entire...
Cover of Simple Fly Fishing (Revised Second Edition)
by Yvon Chouinard, Craig Mathews, Mauro Mazzo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019

Modern-day fly fishing, like much in life, has become exceedingly complex, with high-tech gear, a confusing array of flies and terminal tackle, accompanied by high-priced fishing guides. This book reveals that the best way to catch trout is simply, with a rod and a fly and not much else. The wisdom...
Cover of Path of the Puma

Path of the Puma

The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion

by Jim Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

During a time when most wild animals are experiencing decline in the face of development and climate change, the intrepid mountain lion -- also known as a puma, a cougar, and by many other names – has experienced reinvigoration as well as expansion of territory. What makes this cat, the fourth carnivore...
Cover of La Imagen es la Identidad
by Cristian Calderón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Desde que en los años sesenta ALVIN TOFFLER nos dejara estupefactos con el shock del futuro ha pasado mucha agua bajo los puentes. Las comunicaciones se han visto revolucionadas, haciendo que la sentencia de Marshall McLuhan sobre la aldea global sea cierta, a veces dramáticamente cierta.El profesor...
Cover of Borges en Austin
by Diego Trelles Paz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Sucedió el primero de agosto de 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, un ex marino estadounidense de veinticinco años, subió con un rifle a la alto de la torre de la Universidad de Texas en Austin y mató a dieciséis personas antes de ser ultimado por un francotirador. Dos años más tarde del incidente,...
Cover of El resto es silencio
by Carla Guelfenbein
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Carla Guelfenbein construye en esta novela una trama conmovedora, que atrapa en la lectura con una sutileza notable. Tres personajes hablan en primera persona de sí mismos y de una realidad que viven sin percatarse de los otros puntos de vista, mientras los hilos de la vida se van cruzando para tejer...
Cover of La reina Isabel cantaba rancheras
by Hernán Rivera Letelier
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Es la primera novela de Hernán Rivera Letelier. Presentada al Primer Concurso Nacional del Libro de Chile, ganó indiscutidamente el premio, por su prosa rítmica, incesante, irreverente que recuerda la magia y fluidez de escritores avezados. Escribe historias de hombres y mujeres de las soledades...
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