Desertmakers

List of Figures

A Note on Translations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Desertmakers

1 War in Terra Incognita: Richard Burton's Letters from the Battle-Fields of Paraguay

2 In Praise of Deviation: W. H. Hudson's The Purple Land

3 Making Museums, Making Deserts: Francisco Moreno in Patagonia

4 The Limits of Visibility and Knowledge: Euclides da Cunha's Os sertoes

Afterword: What Is Left?

Bibliography

Index

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• Estudos regionais
• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Sociologia
• Estudos Hispânicos e Latino
• História das Américas
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e

Young Man;Literature;HMS Beagle;Research;War Time;Travel Writing;Care Taker;Latin America;Long Trail;Latin American Literature;Wooden Bridge;Empire;Purple Land;Neocolonialism;Nahuel Huapi;Empire Writing;Paraguayan War;Paraguay;Belo Monte;Uruguay;Santa Cruz River;Argentina;El Azar;Brazil;Paraguayan Territory;Spatiality;Brazilian Wilderness;Richard Burton;ESMA;Letters From the Battle Fields of Paraguay;Uruguayan Territory;William H. Hudson;The Purple Land;Francisco Moreno;Viaje a la Patagonia austral;Euclides da Cunha;War;War Literature;criticism;modernization