A celebration of Argentina that chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the 20's and 30's through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives - a hard-drinking, womanising, emigre Scotsman, who cut his way through the bars and brothels of the city whilst trading with farmers upcountry.
For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, and under threat of 'disappearance' he helped families of the missing, attended guerilla conference, and took tea with torturers.
A History of the English-speaking Communities in Argentina
Notorious for its military dictatorships, South America is less well known for its wars. The heyday of South American war-mongering was the 19th century, and it is this period that Andrew Graham-Yooll reconstructs in this history of small wars