The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state and forced the desert's colonization. The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate region—and terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chile—and, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp.

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Whatever time we spend reading and memorizing Gods Word is time well spent. But how do you get started? Some of the passages are so long. The book you hold has about four hundred of the shortest verses from the New Testament that you can start on today. Along with each short verse is a one-page devotional thought to remind you what the verse is all about. Spending time in Gods Word has never been so easy. The format will work for children or adults with a great education or nearly none at all. If you can read and want to try memorizing Gods Word for yourself, you might find this book to be the place to begin a lifetime of hiding Gods Word in your heart.

Dane Coolidge (1873-1940) was an American author, naturalist, and photographer. He is best known for his Western novels and his non-fiction books about the American West. Coolidge wrote short stories for magazines and made illustrations and his book Rimrock Jones was adapted into the film. This carefully crafted ebook collection of his works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hidden Water The Texican Bat Wing Bowles The Desert Trail Rimrock Jones Shadow Mountain Silver and Gold Wunpost The Man-Killers