At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig - Softcover

John Gimlette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091794595 ISBN 13: 9780091794590

Publisher: Hutchinson

Synopsis

Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Nazis, utopian experiments, missionaries and lurid coups. It's not a place for the timid because there isn't even a guidebook. But Paraguay, as revealed in this outstanding new book, is among the most beautiful and captivating countries in the world. The beguiling Paraguayans, despised and feared by their neighbours, are unfathomable. They adore Britain (hundreds volunteered to fight for Britain in the Falklands War), have a taste for soccer and, when the Vice-President is murdered, they call in Scotland Yard. John Gimlette has written a brilliant evocation which captures Paraguay's originality, passion, quirkiness and contradictions.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A vivid journey into Paraguay -- hellish jungles, dictators, flamboyant mistresses -- yet one of the most beautiful and
captivating countries in the world.

About the Author:

Although this is his first book, John Gimlette is already well established as a travel journalist, having won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for an essay which has led to this book, and the Wanderlust Travel Writing Award. He writes regularly for the Telegraph. When not deep in the jungles of Paraguay he practises as a barrister in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• ISBN 10: 0091794595
• ISBN 13: 9780091794590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 363