The year 2017 was the 40^th anniversary of Bruce Chatwin’s seminal travel book In Patagonia. The book came about when Chatwin, while in the United States on assignment for the Sunday Times of London, on the spur of the moment decided to travel to Patagonia to pursue a long-held dream to write about the region. The result was an epic book about his encounters with locals in both Chile and Argentina that to this day remains the must-read book for travelers to this part of the world.