Yankee in Patagonia: Edward Chace 1931 First Edition ~Rockwell Kent ~True Adventures in Argentina 1898-1930 ~by Robert & Katharine Barrett

Title: A Yankee in Patagonia: Edward Chace

Author: Robert & Katharine Barrett. Introduction by Rockwell Kent
Illustrator: Rockwell Kent

Description: First Edition. Green cloth with considerable fading to edges of boards. Map endpapers. Shallow spot of soiling to fore-edges of first page gathering, else clean. Frontispiece and introduction by Rockwell Kent. pp. viii, 349. Dust jacket is price clipped and edgeworn; spine toned; in an archival mylar sleeve.

The lively account of a Taunton, Massachusetts man's thirty years sojourn in Patagonia. Edward Chace departed Boston as a ship's carpenter in 1897 and abruptly found himself ashore in Patagonia in the summer of 1898--where he remained for more than three decades. The authors encountered Chace during their travels and spent a winter collecting and writing down his stories. The narrative provides a fascinating account of the life and adventures of a New Englander living on the life of a sheep-herder, hunter, and gold-seeker in the Pampas. Chace recounts many strange and vivid stories, from hunting pumas in caves, to fights, sheep ranching, encounters with various renegades, gauchos, and Indians, lions, horses, ostriches and guanacos. Packed with local lore and color.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good–

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place: Boston and New York
Year: 1931

Keywords: South America, Argentina, Chile, travel, description, gauchos, adventure,