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Natascha Scott-Stokes Launches New Book - Tales From The Sharp End

Congratulations to Natascha Scott-Stokes (S:1973-1975) who recently launched her new book, 'Tales From The Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile'
17 Sep 2024
Written by Rachele Snowden
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Embracing our School motto to 'Live Adventurously', Natascha Scott-Stokes has been a renowned independent traveller and author for over three decades. She established herself as a pioneering traveller in 1989, when she became the first woman to travel the length of the Amazon River alone, from its Marañon headwaters in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic off Brazil. Soon afterwards, she based herself in Guatemala, where she not only met the Quebecois father of her two sons, but also co-authored two guidebooks.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was inspired to take a journey into history by bicycle, following an ancient trade route for amber through the newly-accessible countries of Eastern Europe.

Natascha Scott-Stokes emigrated from England to Chile in 2006, but her family’s connection with the country goes right back to the 19th century, when her great-great-grandfather arrived in Valparaíso in 1873, with a contract to install the first submarine telecommunications cable between Peru and Chile.

Natascha has a Masters in Latin American history and archaeology from London University and is a member of various professional associations, including US-based Biographers International, the Chilean Translators’ Association, and the Society of Authors in the UK. She has four travel books and a biography to her name and has also co-authored a number of travel guides. For more information see her website at www.nataschascottstokes.com

Her latest travelogue, Tales from the Sharp End, is based on fifteen years of living and exploring the country, and offers both a love letter to Chile and a heartfelt lament for a country living at the sharp end of human folly and climate change.

If you would like to purchase a copy you can do so here: Buy Here - Tales From the Sharp End

 

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