"A story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The narrative reveals the deeper meaning of theevents on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire"--

[In 1978] at the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi -- a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother -- it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina's elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house -- despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic...

Zay Harding takes the road trip of a lifetime on one of the longest and most spectacular highways in the world, Argentina's Ruta 40, often called La Mitica Ruta 4,0 or the Mythical Route 40. Running the entire length of the country, from the border with Bolivia to the southern tip of Patagonia and along the edge of the Andes mountains, Zay completes a 3,000 mile journey from north to south across the entire country.

Auki, a young member of the Tehuelche tribe in Patagonia, wants to prove himself as a hunter but when he sets out on his own to face the puma, he stumbles upon a sacred cave and its guardian.

"When Commodore Anson set out for the Pacific in 1740, to attack the Spanish ships on the Chilean coast, he took eight ships with him. The Wager was effectively a transport ship, carrying stores and a force of marines; as the squadron rounded Cape Horn in fearsome weather, she was unable to keep up with the rest of them, and with her gear wrecked by the storm, was driven ashore on the Patagonian coast." "The tale of mutiny, hardship and tenacity...