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Readers will enjoy reading about Charles Darwin's 17 very formative months in Chile. The bi-centenary of Darwin's birth (and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species) falls in 2009. In addition, British sailors and soldiers were instrumental in winning Chile's War of Independence from Spain. The bi-centenary of the Declaration of Independence will be celebrated in 2010, and Chile plans to make a big splash of this event.
There is increasing interest in visiting Chile, especially Patagonia, and in knowing about the often bizarre stories connecting British pirates, sheep-farmers, and missionaries to this region. Locations used in 2008 for the filming of the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace, (the Baquedano railway junction in northern Chile), have strong associations with the history of the British presence. There are literally tens of thousands of descendants of British immigrants living today in Chile. One source estimates this number at more than 350,000 descendants. While bookshops in Chile have histories of the Germans, the Swiss, even the Yugoslavs, who settled in Chile, there is no book that tells the story of the most important foreign group to impact on the country-the British.
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