At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay - Softcover

Gimlette, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400078520 ISBN 13: 9781400078523

Publisher: Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

Haven to Nazis, smugglers’ paradise, home to some of the earth’s oddest wildlife and most baroquely awful dictatorships, Paraguay is a nation waiting for the right chronicler. In John Gimlette, at last it has one. With an adventurer’s sang-froid, a historian’s erudition, and a sense of irony so keen you could cut a finger on it, Gimlette celebrates the beauty, horror and–yes–charm of South America’s obscure and remote “island surrounded by land.”

He takes readers from genteel drawing rooms in Asuncion–where ladies still gossip about the nineteenth-century Irish adventuress who became Paraguay’s Empress to the “Green Hell” of the Chaco, a vast, inhospitable tract populated by aging Mennonites and discouraged Indians. Replete with eccentrics and scoundrels, ecologically minded cannibals and utopians from every corner of the earth, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a madly entertaining book.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A vivid journey into Paraguay -- hellish jungles, dictators, flamboyant mistresses -- yet one of the most beautiful and
captivating countries in the world.

About the Author:

John Gimlette is a regular contributor of travel articles and photographs to Condé Nast Traveller, as well as numerous journals and newspapers in England. He is a practicing attorney in London, where he lives with his family. This is his first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400078520
• ISBN 13: 9781400078523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400