The Blind Horn's Hate: Magellan, Drake and Other Adventurers in the Uttermost South

By Richard Hough

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393054292
• ISBN13: 9780393054293
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: W.W. Norton
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

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It's North you may run to the rime-ringed sun

- or South to the Blind Horn's Hate. Thus spake Kipling of Cape Horn, the most notorious navigational landmark of all time. (Rud continues: "/Or East all the way into Mississippi Bay/Or West to the Golden Gate.") This is a splendid history of a famous place; a perfect set-off to "Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator." Hough takes us on a historic tour of Tierra Del Fuego and Cape Horn, from Magellan through Drake to Anson and forward to the nineteenth-century cowboys who conquered the island (and whose conquest and diseases tragically killed the indigenous peoples). Hough is particularly interesting in describing the wholly different mindsets of Magellan, the Catholic, and Drake, the Protestant, as they battle the elements. Magellan saw adversity as a divine test; Drake blamed the devil. There are centuries worth of stories of shipwreck and discovery in this corner of the world, retold (and illustrated) spectacularly well.