101 Facts about Argentina

A country everyone believes they already know.<BR>>Because this is where the highest and the lowest points in the Western Hemisphere sit inside a single country. This is where the oldest dinosaurs on earth were found, and the largest ones too. It holds one of the highest vineyards on the planet, more bookstores per resident than any other metropolis, and more psychologists per capita than anywhere else on earth.

101 facts. One per page.

No hunting, no scrolling, no index-chasing - open it anywhere. Sorted into six chapters:

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Geography & Nature - Aconcagua, Iguazú, Perito Moreno, titanosaurs<BR>- History & Archaeology - Cueva de las Manos, Jesuits, the Malvinas, the junta trial<BR>- People, Language & Cities - Lunfardo, Buenos Aires, Rosario, La Plata<BR>- Tango, Football & Popular Culture - Gardel, Piazzolla, Maradona, Mafalda<BR>- Beef, Mate & Wine - asado, Malbec, empanadas, dulce de leche<BR>- Economy, Records & Everyday Life - five Nobel Prizes, the ballpoint pen, inflation

<BR>The difficult material is here too.

The dictatorship, the dispute over how many were disappeared, the fall from among the world's richest countries: sober, with checked figures, and without theatrics.

Checked, not copied.

Every figure was verified against an accessible source. Where sources contradict each other, the range appears in the text rather than the prettier number. One example: the name Patagonia most likely comes not from big feet but from a character in a Spanish romance of 1512.

With a country profile, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up.

Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.