A Different Time

AMONG my latest reads is Through The Heart Of Patagonia by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, an explorer and big-game hunter who later won the Military Cross for dramatically improving British sniping techniques - defensive and offensive - in World War One.

First published in New York in 1902 - I have a modern reprint

The book is much more about travel than history, but I found it an interesting account of life on the trail in Argentina before modern communications and transport made such adventures a lot less dangerous.