Publisher's Synopsis
Patagonia is as unknown today as it was when Juan Diaz de Solls and Vincente Yanez Pinzon landed there in 1508, sixteen years after the discovery of the New World.
The first navigators, unwittingly or not, covered this country with a mysterious veil which science and frequent reports have not yet entirely lifted. The famous Magalës (Magellan) and his historian the knight Pigafetta, who touched these shores in 1520, were the first who invented these giant Patagonians so high that the Europeans barely reached at their belt, or tall over nine feet and resembling cyclops. These fables, like all fables, have been accepted as truths, and in the last century became the subject of a very lively polemic among scholars. Also the name of Patagonians (big feet) was given to the inhabitants of this land which extends from the western slope of the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.
