Following British Footsteps in South America
A new book revisits the fascinating but often overlooked history of the British presence across the continent.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on China and Latin America One of the first things Shafik Meghji did before setting out to write Small Earthquakes was to consult with Andrew Graham-Yooll, an esteemed former editor of the English-language newspaper Buenos Aires Herald and the author of several superb books on South America. In one of his works, the minor classic A State of Fear, Graham-Yooll writes that the region is “a continent which European writers have failed to explain and few Latin Americans have succeeded in interpreting.” Meghji gives...
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