Endorsements

“The neatly stark description, the meticulous bibliographic research, the images that install us in the area and the accurate references make it an essential book for scholars and at the same time, its fluid narration makes it a popular text for the general public. . A look like his was needed to dismantle in detail what happened in Finis Terrae, a geography so distant that some describe it as the place where the wind bends " Marcelo Valko, Argentine writer. “Alonso Marchante has given himself a major interpretive job, reviewing a large documentary base of temporally, disciplinary and institutionally segmented narratives. From this tremendous review of bibliography and documents, most of it known but never before put into dialogue, an ensemble interpretation with its own value emerges, which allows to dismantle judgments and prejudices converted by dint of repetition into a kind of common sense when thinking the history of the colonization of Tierra del Fuego. It is a book that passes the brush against the grain of colonialist, nationalist, regionalist, supremacist history, to contribute to a humanist interpretation " Alberto Harambour Ross, Chilean historian. “José Luis Alonso Marchante's moving essay encompasses a remarkable amount of contributions. It neatly details the peculiarities of the country's lineages, selk'nam, kawésqar, yagán or haush, analogous to the other nations of the rest of America: potentially nomadic, good adaptation to a natural environment with a harsh climate and extreme living conditions, together with a respect for nature and its resources, they did not generate surpluses and avoided individual hoarding. The elderly were venerated as wise and essential in the preservation and dissemination of a cultural heritage that minors obtained from the elderly directly, spontaneously and naturally, without the need for corporal punishment " Miquel Izard, professor at the University of Barcelona