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On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Explores the unspoiled wilderness of Tierra del Fuego, an island at the southern tip of Patagonia in South America. Take a journey to this subantarctic region that is home to Magellanic penguins, elephant seals, right whales, guanacos, etc.
3) Chile
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Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2012
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144 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
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"Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Chile"--Provided by publisher.
4) Chile
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Located along the Pacific Coast of South America, Chile is a long, narrow country that is home to a striking variety of landscapes. From the Atacama Desert in the north to rainy Patagonia in the south to the snowy peaks of the Andes mountains in the east, there are stunning views everywhere you look. Readers will explore this beautiful nation in depth as they learn about its history and culture. They will find out how Chile is governed, what kinds...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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304 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Describes the history and architecture of Chile and Easter Island, and provides information about accommodations, restaurants, shopping, sightseeing, and cultural attractions each has to offer.
9) The club
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Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After being accused of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching, disgraced priests and nuns are sent to live in a small Chilean beach town.
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"With her earliest memories erased by a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised amid great wealth in Chile by her shrewd, commanding grandmother. But her nights are tormented by a nightmare set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Now, reaching womanhood and thrust into a marriage that quickly leaves her disillusioned, she begins a search for her missing years and unwinds a twisted saga linking three generations of a powerful family to a courageous Chinese...
11) The pearl button
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet essay.
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Explores the significance of the sea in Chile's history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of western Patagonia and the story of Jemmy Button.
13) Aguafuerte
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
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358 pages ; 23 cm
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"Noviembre de 1879. El norte de Chile arde con la Guerra del Pacífico y la tensión con Perú y Bolivia está en su punto crítico. Las batallas navales dan paso a la campaña terrestre, que se inicia con la toma de Pisagua por las tropas chilenas, en la primera operación anfibia de la historia militar moderna. Así, mientras los lanchones del Ejército avanzan para conquistar los roqueríos, seguimos a Manuel Romero, un soldado raso que se interna...
14) The wolf house
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Kim Stim
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
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Maria is a young girl who hides in a mysterious abandoned house in southern Chile after escaping from a colony run by German religious fanatics. She's greeted by two pigs sheltering there, and the house begins to react to Maria's feelings, eventually transforming the animals into humans in a phantasmagoria of beauty and horror.
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
17) Bonsai
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022.
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95 pages ; 22 cm.
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Two Chilean university students, Emilia and Julio, become inseparable lovers until their relationship changes and Emilia mysteriously disappears from Chile.
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In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...
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