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Title: Rather thin travel book
Review: Sarah's book could have been much better had she left her British haughtiness at home. Her fascination with Chilean political history takes a lot away from her usual travel insights. When she compared Allende's last days with that of Jesus Christ, his farewell the same as Jesus' farewell to his disciples, that becomes a little much. And of course, most of Chile's problems come from, where else, the US of A! Hitler, she observes, was the "Nixon of that era." She's just one of the people, she hints, but can't help but comment on how smelly some of the peasants are, and when a servant in a luxurious hacienda brings her a drink, she refers to him as a "flunkey." So, let her get back to her travel books with some pretty penetrating observations about people and place, and she'll do OK. But "Travels in a Thin Country" is pretty thin.
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