Francisco Coloane

"These stories, well translated from the Spanish, describe the severe beauty and cruelty of southern Chile—cold, inhospitable, full of craggy, treacherous channels—the end of the world. As in Jack London’s stories, the environment forms a crucible in which man’s true—or perhaps worst—nature is revealed: two stranded …

?Francisco Coloane is the Jack London of our times.? ?Alvaro Mutis These spellbinding stories of adventure and discovery are populated with explorers, fortune hunters, revolutionaries, seafarers, ship?s captains, and smugglers. But the undeniable protagonist in all nine stories is nature itself. Southern Chile, the …