The Lost South: A Story at the End of the World

In order to find the lost treasure of Patagonia grassland, the world-famous photographer Mel Tsenski took 50 photos of Zhang Zhengui, showing the memory of the south that is gone forever.

The Lost South is not just a travel book in the traditional sense. In the author's own words, it is "a collection of lagging news, a novel of disappearing regions". Sepú lveda and photographer friend Mer Censky drove from San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, from 42 degrees south latitude to Cape Horn, Argentina, and then returned to chiloe island from Patagonia, Chile. This book tells anecdotes about their travels and describes the unique local scenery and cultural customs. They visited many corners that were not recorded in geography and history books, and met some isolated people. This South American Travels begins with a summary of Sepú lveda and Mel Tsenski's travels. For various reasons, they failed to finish the book in time. By the time the pen was collected, the places they had been to had been affected beyond recognition by globalization and greenhouse effect, so the title was born.

Every chapter in the book tells a story that only belongs to the ends of the earth south of 42 degrees south latitude. Those people are either awake or drunk, happy or sad, greedy or indifferent. These people have different temperaments, but what they have in common is that they all tell or experience legendary stories.

When modernization erodes Patagonia grassland and greedy human beings gloat with snobbery, the beauty of the past has become the past, and people can only vaguely see its past appearance in this book.

At the beginning, it is written that there is a kind of bamboo in Patagonia, South America, with strong and gorgeous flowers, but the flowering period is very short, which shows the power of the Oracle. To some extent, Jules Zhu Gui can be said to be a witness to the history of South America, witnessing the love and pain of a continent. Also like a prophecy, "in fact, you don't have to wait too long to know where misfortune comes from."

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In Eaton, Elma, people used to sit at the train station and watch the train pass by. That habit determines the existence of time and the universe: if a train passes by, it means it leaves from one place to another. We drank red wine and looked at the stars. Eton, Alma is in the dark, but in a corner of the grassland ... Our Miss Lu Han will look at them with more sad eyes from faded printed matter, because sadness is the only thing left by the winner.

Author [Chile] Louis? Sepú lveda was born in Oye, Chile, and is a writer, journalist and filmmaker. When I was young, I traveled all over the world, from the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara desert, from Patagonia in South America to Hamburg in Germany. I boarded the "Greenpeace" ship and personally joined the ranks of environmental protection actions. His works such as The Old Man Reading Love Stories, The World at the End of the World, Patagonia Express and Cats Teach Seagulls to Fly have been translated into more than 50 languages. Sepú lveda is an honorary doctor of Toulon University in France and urbino University in Italy, and was awarded the Knight of French Literature and Art ... Danielle. Mer Censky (1960-), born in Buenos Aires, is known as the "photographer of writers". He started shooting excellent Spanish writers 30 years ago, and plans to complete a collection of Ibero-American literary figures. Censky is also a photographer for the Spanish newspaper El Pais and a special photographer for various literary festivals. Recently published are Kaleidoscope and Works of Ink and Light.