La tierra natal is a journey into the past, and also a farewell. Since 1831, when forced to follow her father into exile in Bolivia, Juana Manuela Gorriti had not returned to Salta; though there are some opinions about the stealth trip disguised in man's clothes, depicted in her short story "Gubi Amaya", being somewhat autobiographic. A trip from Buenos Aires up to the country's North in 1878 becomes frustrated at Tucuman. And it is just in 1886,...