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"""Natascha Scott-Stokes offers readers the rare gift of combining an outsider's skeptical peek into a foreign land with an insider's keen grasp of Chile's cultural quirks and politics, dramatic turning points, and unparalleled landscape. Tales from the Sharp End is a witty, richly colored gaze at Chile from within.""--Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles, author of The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile ""Tales from the Sharp End is a genuine pleasure to read. If you haven't yet visited Chile, you will want to after reading this book. Natascha Scott-Stokes has an engagingly personal writing style, and her portrait of Chile is rendered evocatively in a series of unforgettable stories about the nature, people, and history of the land she has come to feel a part of. There is humor and beauty here as well as bittersweetness. In the end, this is Natascha Scott-Stokes's ode to the place that she has chosen to live in and to love. Reading her, one cannot help but feel that she has given over a part of her soul to Chile, but that--delightfully for us--it has been a reciprocal exchange.""--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life ""A most welcome addition to the literature on Chile. Natascha Scott-Stokes gives us a broad overview of this remarkable land, weaving together natural history, Spanish explorers and colonizers, and the country's troubled recent history.""--Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General's Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet"

"""Tales from the Sharp End is a genuine pleasure to read. If you haven't yet visited Chile, you will want to after reading this book. Natascha Scott-Stokes has an engagingly personal writing style, and her portrait of Chile is rendered evocatively in a series of unforgettable stories about the nature, people, and history of the land she has come to feel a part of. There is humor and beauty here as well as bittersweetness. In the end, this is Natascha Scott-Stokes's ode to the place that she has chosen to live in and to love. Reading her, one cannot help but feel that she has given over a part of her soul to Chile, but that--delightfully for us--it has been a reciprocal exchange.""--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life ""A most welcome addition to the literature on Chile. Natascha Scott-Stokes gives us a broad overview of this remarkable land, weaving together natural history, Spanish explorers and colonizers, and the country's troubled recent history.""--Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General's Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet ""Natascha Scott-Stokes offers readers the rare gift of combining an outsider's skeptical peek into a foreign land with an insider's keen grasp of Chile's cultural quirks and politics, dramatic turning points, and unparalleled landscape. Tales from the Sharp End is a witty, richly colored gaze at Chile from within.""--Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles, author of The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile"

""Natascha Scott-Stokes offers readers the rare gift of combining an outsider's skeptical peek into a foreign land with an insider's keen grasp of Chile's cultural quirks and politics, dramatic turning points, and unparalleled landscape. Tales from the Sharp End is a witty, richly colored gaze at Chile from within.""--Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles, author of The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile ""Tales from the Sharp End is a genuine pleasure to read. If you haven't yet visited Chile, you will want to after reading this book. Natascha Scott-Stokes has an engagingly personal writing style, and her portrait of Chile is rendered evocatively in a series of unforgettable stories about the nature, people, and history of the land she has come to feel a part of. There is humor and beauty here as well as bittersweetness. In the end, this is Natascha Scott-Stokes's ode to the place that she has chosen to live in and to love. Reading her, one cannot help but feel that she has given over a part of her soul to Chile, but that--delightfully for us--it has been a reciprocal exchange.""--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life ""A most welcome addition to the literature on Chile. Natascha Scott-Stokes gives us a broad overview of this remarkable land, weaving together natural history, Spanish explorers and colonizers, and the country's troubled recent history.""--Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General's Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet

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Natascha Scott-Stokes established herself as a pioneering traveler in 1989, when she became the first woman to travel the length of the Amazon River alone, a journey recorded in her book An Amazon and a Donkey.

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