by Toby Green · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401376740
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«Tras las huellas de Darwin» is Toby Green's travel chronicle, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (380 pages, in Spanish).
Toby Green follows on horseback Charles Darwin's itinerary through South America for a year: some six thousand miles, from Tierra del Fuego to the Galápagos Islands. Without logistical support and with scant equestrian experience, Green portrays gauchos, Mapuche people and Chilean miners, and shows how much the continent has changed.
«Tras las huellas de Darwin» was published in June 2000 and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 1999.
For readers of travel literature and adventure chronicles with an interest in natural history and South America.
Toby Green is a British historian of inequality. He is also a professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College, London. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in African studies at the University of Birmingham. He is chair of the Fontes Historiae Africanae Committee of the British Academy, and has extensively published about African early modern history and colonial African slavery, mainly focused on the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa. Green's work has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Library, the European Union, and the Leverhulme Trust. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for History. His work on the history of African and global inequalities has been translated into more than ten languages.
