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More difficult to comprehend is Timerman's story of why he was abducted in the first place. He recounts crude anti-Semitic insults and the paranoid belief in a Jewish plot to seize Argentina's windswept Patagonia region for a new Israel...
Bruce Chatwin sidled into the limelight two years ago with In Patagonia, a stylish piece of travel writing. The Viceroy of Ouidah finds his jeweler's eye playing over 19th century West Africa. The book is a novelization of the life and death of a footloose Brazilian named Francisco Felix de Souza, who flourished as a slave trader under the protection of the King of Dahomey. Chatwin began his research nine years ago in Dahomey and returned in 1977 to find the country named the People's Republic of Benin. "The fetish priests of Ouidah," he notes...
...camera follows that inquiry, from his discovery of the fossils of extinct reptiles in Patagonia to his speculations on the origins of the ancient, giant turtles of the Galapagos Islands. Slowly, step by careful step, his theory of natural selection takes shape. As laid out with elegant precision by Writer Robert Reid, Darwin's thought process steadily builds suspense, even though the outcome has been known for 120 years. Nothing is as dramatic as the unfolding of an idea so important that it fundamentally alters the way man looks at himself and his world...
...courses offered in the 150-page catalogue run from suspense ("The Hazards of Being Male") to adventure ("A Three-Week Study Tour of the Argentine Pampas, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego") and pop psychology ("Fairy Tales: Keys to the Psyche"). Indeed, the entire U.C.L.A. extension school is planned and promoted like a network's fall lineup of television shows. The similarity is no accident. "Our programs and those on television have the same threads," says Extension Dean Phillip Frandson. "Like TV, we mirror the needs of the public...
...trip from Tunisia to Nigeria, billed as "the most daring tourist program ever offered," is almost impossible to duplicate by private car. Conventional accommodations are expensive or nonexistent at most stopovers on Höltl's 7,000-mile Indian expedition or his 8,000-mile Peru-to-Patagonia haul. "We go to the interior, where the ordinary people live," says Jan Buchta, a veteran Rotel guide, who likes to call the tours "study trips. In Africa, for example, we not only show guests Nairobi and Mombasa but also the hinterland of Kenya...