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Julius Beerbohm (1854-1906) was a Victorian travel writer, engineer, and explorer whose family members included the renowned actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm. He spent much time travelling around Europe losing money at casinos and then thinking up grandiose schemes to recoup his losses, such as dredging the Nile to uncover the lost jewels of the Pharaohs. Despite being constantly on the verge of financial ruin, he maintained a high standard of living, even indulging his dandyism by sending his linen from London to Paris to be washed. In his role as engineer, in 1877 he travelled to Patagonia as part of a group sent to survey the land between Port Desire and Santa Cruz and Wanderings in Patagonia (1881) gives an account of his time there, offering vivid descriptions of the natural history and geography of the country. He travelled across deserts and through jungles with the native Indians, encountering snowstorms and ostrich hunters, and among his most memorable adventures include a dangerous crossing during a severe flood, and the episode when the group finally arrive in Sandy Point only to witness the local prison and its military guard mutinying, getting drunk, taking over the town and killing many of the citizens. Includes 7 black and white illustrations, including a diagram of the rock formation.

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