In Patagonia – another journey to the end of the world

I didn’t deliberately plan to arrive in Buenos Aires 50 years to the day after Bruce Chatwin announced his intention to “run away to South America”. But it was a handy coincidence. The Sunday Times journalist abandoned a job in New York in November 1974 with a wallet of expenses to research a piece about the Guggenheim family. And a plan to do something else. “I intend to spend Christmas in the middle of Patagonia,” he wrote to his editor in London. “I am doing a story there…