Discover GEEO’s recommended books to read before you travel to Chilean Patagonia to hike the W Trek. Our book club is a way for travelers to learn through literature about the places they’ll visit.

These are some of our favorites about the W Trek, so if you’re heading there, take a look (the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs, just a bit of added fun)! We hope you will enjoy the books we have selected and they will enhance your experience.

You should be able to find most of our selections through the links below and in your local library system as well. Do you have any feedback on our selections or suggestions for additions? Contact us and let us know!

Recommended books to read before traveling to Chile for the W Trek:

Fiction:

• The House of the Spirits: A Novel by Isabel Allende (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Ten Women by Marcela Serrano (Bookshop.org | Amazon)

Nonfiction:

• Trekking Torres del Paine: Chile’s Premier National Park and Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park by Rudolf Abraham (Amazon)
• Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile by Sara Wheeler (Bookshop.org | Amazon)

For those looking for more suggestions, here are some other books you may want to consider:

• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Walking by Henry David Thoreau (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Riding Into the Heart of Patagonia by Nancy Pfeiffer (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Enduring Patagonia by Gregory Crouch (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (Bookshop.org | Amazon)
• Mischief in Patagonia: An Intolerable Deal of Sea, One Halfpennyworth of MountainM by H.W. Tilman (Amazon)

GEEO utilizes both Bookshop.org and Amazon Associates links for the above-suggested books. If you purchase a book through one of the links above, you’re supporting us as a nonprofit and helping more teachers travel through GEEO!