{"product_id":"books-patagonia-by-colin-mcewan","title":"Patagonia","description":"Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonise the continental extremity of South America. Their arrival marked the culmination of mankind's epic journey to people the globe. These intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding as Ice Age Europe as they settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the Aonikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yamana (Yahgan) and Kawashekar (Alacaluf). The first contacts led to tales of a race of giants and, ever since, Patagonia has exerted a special hold on the European imagination. Tragically, by the mid twentieth-century the last remnants of the indigenous way of life had disappeared for ever. The essays in this volume trace a largely unwritten history of human adaptation, survival and eventual extinction. Published to accompany a major exhibition on Fuego-Patagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53509805408529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780714125350.jpg?v=1778167763","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-patagonia-by-colin-mcewan","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}