This is a hefty book – I hold it partly responsible for tendonitis in my left thumb. But that’s a small aggravation when set in the context of Michael Jacobs’s epic journey along the Andes – itself filled with aggravations and exhilaration – through seven countries, from the Caribbean to the Straits of Magellan.

Now in his late fifties, Jacobs is an Englishman who lives in Andalusia and has written several books on Spain and South America. He was born, however, in the Italian Alps, and early expeditions with his brother, pretending to conquer the Poles or the Himalayas, left him with

May 2010

For Love or Money

Expect the Unexpected

Sex on the Brain

Love in the Time of Plague

A Perfectly Normal Chap Who Forgot He Was Gay

Very Plausible Dystopia

Folk Industries

Lines in the Sand

Whiskey Sour

National Trust View Not Needed

Life’s a Shopping Mall

Age Shall Not Weary Them

Range-Rovia to Ngotoland

Prisoners of the Past

Darkness Falls

Piuran of the Year

Drinking in the USA

Holy Symmetry

Blood, Sweat and Tears

The Wisdom of Solomon

Recollections of a Wild Radish

Flower Powers

Raunchy Rhythms

The Flash of Fireflies

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