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On December 6, 1895, on the day of his 26th birthday, a young Swede, recently graduated with a doctorate in mineralogy and geology, arrives on the east coast of Tierra del Fuego. The Argentinian ship "Uruguay" leaves him on a desolate and remote coast, along with 100 boxes of provisions, two Swedish companions - a zoologist and a biologist, and a squad of gauchos from the north. And so, begins the journey of this curious and adventurous young explorer. The young man's name is Otto Nordenskjöld and for two seasons he explores, investigates and discovers in Tierra del Fuego and southern Patagonia, deciphering the geological stratification as well as the social one, between one world of the original peoples, in decline, and another world, of the colonizers, arising.

This is the first translation of the book "Från Eldslandet" that was published in 1898 in a single edition and with few copies. Despite being 125 years old, the book provides new pieces to the puzzle we call history and provides an excellent contemporary reading, which recounts events, landscapes and people at a key moment in the history of Patagonia. In this edition material has been added that provides context and value to the original; a timeline, a gallery of people mentioned in the book and a prologue by the historian Alberto Harambour R. who gives us a historical introduction to the situation of the territory at the time of Nordenskjöld travels. The book has been simultaneously translated into Spanish and published on Amazon as an eBook in February 2022.

Otto Nordenskjöld is best known for his subsequent expedition to Antarctica on the ship "Antarctic" between 1901 and 1903. The ship was crushed in the ice initiating one of the most notorious survival stories in the history of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.