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Tres Anos De Esclavitud Entre Los Patagones (Spanish, Paperback, Stockcero ed.)
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Tres Anos De Esclavitud Entre Los Patagones (Spanish, Paperback, Stockcero ed.)
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"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional
ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the
attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the
extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French
immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured
by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a
cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was
forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw
meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often
chastised even by children, he became a privileged witness to
alternate scenes of peace and violence. In his narration he details
both the domestic habits of the various tribes with whom he lived,
as well as the return of the "malones" and the horrid fate reserved
to captives, male and female. Permanently risking death, most of
the time hopeless, Guinnard finally managed to flee in a horrendous
night and day galloping horse ride. This extraordinary adventure
narration was first published in France with great success in the
Le Tour du monde magazine. Even French writer Jules Verne, one of
its passionate readers, was inspired by Guinnard to set the
beginning of "The children of Captain Grant" in Patagonia.
Guinnard's book is one of the most important and original documents
facilitating a better understanding of a key moment in the
Argentine past, when two antagonistic life conceptions, one
European, sedentary and in need of peace conditions to flourish,
and the other, indigenous and nomadic, and dependent of bellicose
habits in order to keep control of its vast territories, attempted
an almost impossible coexistence This new Spanish edition,
translated from the French original, annotated and with a foreword
by Sorbonne researcher prof. Jean-Paul Duviols, constitutes a
valuable addition to the existing bibliography, making a great
reading for any course dealing with the "indian issue" of the South
American Pampas.
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