The 16 stories in this collection deal with confrontation, struggle, and survival amidst the unforgiving violence of nature. Set in the hauntingly beautiful and dangerously remote lands of southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the narration acquires a magical tone in describing the strife of man in the doubly isolating landscape of human nature within the surrounding environment.

Contents:                 

Cape Horn -- The Kanasaka Iceberg -- Flamenco -- The Australian -- Gulf of sorrows -- Five mariners and a green coffin -- Cururo -- Water and moon torture -- Tierra del Fuego -- On the horse of dawn -- The hen who laid eggs of light -- The voice of the wind -- Land of oblivion -- How the Chilote Otey died -- Sumberged iceberg -- The bottle of caña.