101 Facts about Chile: History - Culture Nature Curiosities

A country that is nothing but a line on the map.Peru has Machu Picchu, Brazil has Carnival, Argentina has tango. And Chile? Chile has the driest place on Earth and one of the wettest regions on the continent - less than a thousand miles apart. It has the oldest artificially mummified people in the world, two thousand years before Egypt. The strongest earthquake ever measured. And a tree that may be five thousand years old. 101 facts. Each one on its own page. A core statement plus the background - short enough to dip into, long enough to understand something. Sorted into six chapters: - Geography & Nature - from the blooming desert to the third-largest ice field in the world- History & Archaeology - Chinchorro mummies, moai, and a people who held off first the Inca and then the Spanish- People, Language & Cities - why Chilean Spanish counts as the hardest in the world- Sky & Science - by 2030, about 70 percent of the world's telescopes will stand in Chile- Food & Drink - the grape variety that died out in France and grew on unrecognized here for 150 years- Economy, Records & Everyday Life - copper, lithium, and a divorce law from 2004 Checked, not copied. >With a country profile, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.