In Patagonia (34 page)

Manuel Rojas,
La Cuidad de los Césares,
Santiago, 1936.

 

Helen Wallis, ‘The Patagonian Giants', in
Byron's Circumnavigation,
Hakluyt Society, London, 1964.

R. T. Gould, ‘There were Giants in those Days', in
Enigmas,
London, 1946.

For help in pinning down the origin of the word ‘Patagonia' I am most grateful to Joan St George Saunders and Professor Emilio Gonzales Diaz, of Buenos Aires.

 

Osvaldo Bayer,
Los Vengadores de la Patagonia Trágica,
3 vols, Buenos Aires, 1972—4.

Jose Maria Borrero,
La Patagonia Trágica,
reprinted, Buenos Aires, 1967.

Contemporary copies of the
Magellan Times
printed in Punta Arenas.

 

Narciso García Barria,
Tesoro Mitológico de Chiloé,
1968.

 

Lucas Bridges,
The Uttermost Part of the Earth,
London, 1948. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop,
The Indians of Tierra del Fuego,
New York, 1928.

Martin Gusinde,
The Yámana,
trans. F. Schütze, New Haven, 1961.

 

Introduction to
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,
by Harold Beaver, Penguin Books, London, 1975.

 

Osvaldo Bayer,
Los Anarquistas Expropiadores,
Buenos Aires, 1975.

 

Rev. Thomas Bridges,
Yámana—English Dictionary
, ed. Professor T. Hesterman, Mödling, Austria, 1933, limited edition of 300 copies.

 

Unmentioned in the text are Jules Verne's symbolic last novel
The Lighthouse at the End of the World
, and W. Olaf Stapledon's
Last and First Men
, London, 1930. In this memorable fantasy, the human species, now completely Americanized, perishes through epidemics of cannibalism and pulmonary and nervous diseases. A few stragglers, however, survive to the south of Bahía Blanca, and a new civilization springs up in the Far South under the influence of an adolescent of prodigious sexual capacity, known as The Boy who Refused to Grow Up. The Patagonian Civilization colonizes the rest of the globe, but is no less stupid than its predecessor and destroys itself with an atomic cataclysm.

 

I could not have written this book without the help of Charley Milward's daughter, Monica Barnett, of Lima. She allowed me access to her father's papers and the unpublished manuscript of his stories in her possession. This was particularly generous since she is writing her own biography in which they will appear in full. My sections 73, 75 and 86 are printed from the manuscript with minor alterations. His other stories, from sections 72 to 85, have been adapted from the original.