The Cusp of Dreadfulness: Fifteen Seasons in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia - Hardcover

Winslow, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1491787422 ISBN 13: 9781491787427

Publisher: iUniverse, 2016

Synopsis

It was December 1974 when Margaret Winslow arrived in Punta Arenas, the only city on the Strait of Magellan, prepared to begin her doctoral thesis project. With both excitement and dread, she looked forward to working on familiar rocks in a dynamic region and exploring Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. But first, she had to cross the trackless southern Andes on foot.

In the sequel to her award-winning travel-adventure memoir, Over My Head, Dr. Winslow recounts her ongoing field experiences from the 1970s through the 1990s during intense political paroxysms in Chile and Argentina. Her unforgettable adventures include being arrested and interrogated by the Argentine Navy, a close brush with death on a flight over the Strait of Magellan, and the rescue of an injured child at an isolated farm. Her fascinating narrative includes the frightening details of an assault by a fisherman that hurled the previously intrepid traveler into a state of intense agoraphobia that she had to overcome if she was to survive, return to the wilderness, and work mostly alone.

The Cusp of Dreadfulness continues a geologist's recounting of her struggles through the wilderness of southern South America during a time of brutal transformation.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Winslow plunged into the essentially all-male world of geology in the 1970s. She has over thirty years of field experience in Central America, South America, Antarctica, Alaska, and the Caribbean. Retired from university teaching, she continues her adventures in the Hudson Valley of New York accompanied by her rambunctious donkey.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1491787422
• ISBN 13: 9781491787427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222