Here are some of our favourite books which will help you to discover, imagine and travel over and over again.
For children aged from 0 to 99 years old, here are our suggestions to take you away:
About Chile:
In Spanish:
Discover Chile from top to bottom with this traveller and his historical expertise:
- Chile o una loca geografía
Benjamin Subercaseaux
Cultural icons from contemporary Chilean history of the 80s:
- Revista Caras de colección
387 iconos de Chile. Año 17 edición Extraordinaria 2004
In French:
To get learn about Chile as if you were six years old. Fun, clear, concise and with beautiful pictures and colours:
- Chili
Aude Le Morzadec, Editorial Grandir
On the Mapuche culture and history:
In French:
Explaining the Mapuche history with and an intense and passionate style that makes reality more vivid that fiction:
- Les guerriers de la pluie – brève histoire des mapuches (1536-1810)
Sergio Zamora, Yvelines Editions
In Spanish:
A poetical tale explaining the Mapuche universe.
- Mapuche, gente de la tierra
Malú Sierra, Editorial Sudamericana
Fiction, novels, tales and sagas
In French and Spanish:
Chile, exile, personal history that becomes the history of others.
- Mon pays réinventé – Mi pais inventado
Isabel Allende
The story of austral southern Chile and the tragic destiny of the Ona Indians:
- El Guanaco
Francisco Coloane, Editoriale Points
A passionate vampire story featuring the Mapuche population – for those who enjoy fantasy:
- Twilight, chapitre 4 Révélation. Page 742
Stéphanie Meyer, Editoriale Hachette
In French:
Magical stories for children, perfect for bedtime:
- La sirène de Chiloé, mythes des indiens mapuches
Jacqueline Heissat – Violaine Marlange, Dadoclem editions
The language of native people whom habited first “at the end of the world” meaning of Chile, coming from the word quechua (Incas):
In Spanish:
- Voces indígenas de uso común en Chile (primera parte) vocablos derivados del mapudingún, quechua, aimara, kunza, rapanui etc.
Dr. Juan Grau V. Ediciones Oikos Ltda.
