Hello everyone on the non-fiction forum. I would like to tell you about my latest title: Forty Degrees of Latitude: A Journey of Extremes. This is my account of over four months I spent travelling and exploring Chile and southwestern Bolivia.
This is available as a print paperback through Blurb: http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5582862-forty-degrees-of-latitude
And also as a Kindle download from: [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forty-Degrees-Latitude ... 00N46AG8I/[/url]

I have been an author for over 30 years, and now I have entered the realm of self-publisher too. If you would like to see more of my work please visit: http://www.howardmbeck.co.uk

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This is no ordinary travel book, but then again neither is this an ordinary country. It is a land of precipitous fjords, volcanoes with attitude, earthquakes as regular as football fixtures, temperate rain forests, ice caps, the driest desert in the world, geothermal marvels, the world’s oldest mummies and the longest mountain range outside the Himalaya.
It is a preposterously skinny land wedged incongruously between high Andes and the Pacific. With its head sweltering in the Tropic of Capricorn and a toe tickling Antarctica, it is a veritable ‘smorgasbord’ of sensory stimulation.
This land compares to an uncut diamond. The more effort put into it the more its potential beauty is realised and, in this case, the greater the rewards any journey will provide. Eight ferries, over sixty buses, two rickety bicycles, a rowing boat, two 4x4s, an inflatable Zodiac, two seat-of-the-pants light aircraft, eleven taxies, a trusty pair of hiking boots and over 15,000 kilometres after leaving a tiny island near Cape Horn, my rough ‘diamond’ had become a glittering jewel, a trove of other-worldly experiences. Forty Degrees of Latitude is the showcase for that treasure.
This is not just any land. This is Chile.