ABSTRACT
Patagonia has become one of the preferred subjects in travel writing because, in part, of Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia. For Chatwin, Patagonia constitutes a marginal space where all kinds of nomads end up: it is the final destination of ancient indigenous peoples migrating south and of more recent diasporas - Spanish anarchists, Welsh devotees, Boer refugees and American bandits. In Chatwin's obituary, the New York Times identified him as "one of his generation's ranking travel writers", but Chatwin, sensitive to criticism of his fictionalization of real people and events, sometimes denied that In Patagonia is a travel book altogether. Gimenez Hutton's rewriting of Chatwin's most famous travel book is a symbolic act of political resistance, an attempt to reappropriate authority and a commentary on the travel genre and its ethical limits. Gimenez Hutton's book recognizes the positive and real transformations that the book has on tourism in Patagonia.
