"From the first woman to travel the length of the Amazon solo, this well-researched account of Chile’s often turbulent history is interwoven with tales of life with her two sons in a small town in central Chile. At turns inspiring and heart-rending, but always engaging—essential reading for anyone interested in today’s Chile."

– Rough Guides Chile & Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

"An established travel writer and resident of Chile since 2006, Scott-Stokes provides the reader with a fascinating tapestry of observations on history and culture that will serve as the perfect introduction for visitors to the country."

– Latin American Review of Books

“Tales from the Sharp End is a genuine pleasure to read. If you haven’t yet visited Chile, you will want to after reading this book. Natascha Scott-Stokes has an engagingly personal writing style, and her portrait of Chile is rendered evocatively in a series of unforgettable stories about the nature, people, and history of the land she has come to feel a part of. There is humor and beauty here as well as bittersweetness. In the end, this is Natascha Scott-Stokes’s ode to the place that she has chosen to live in and to love. Reading her, one cannot help but feel that she has given over a part of her soul to Chile, but that—delightfully for us—it has been a reciprocal exchange.”—Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

“Natascha Scott-Stokes offers readers the rare gift of combining an outsider’s skeptical peek into a foreign land with an insider’s keen grasp of Chile’s cultural quirks and politics, dramatic turning points, and unparalleled landscape. Tales from the Sharp End is a witty, richly colored gaze at Chile from within.”—Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles, author of The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile

“Natascha Scott-Stokes offers readers the rare gift of combining an outsider’s skeptical peek into a foreign land with an insider’s keen grasp of Chile’s cultural quirks and politics, dramatic turning points, and unparalleled landscape. Tales from the Sharp End is a witty, richly colored gaze at Chile from within.”—Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles, author of The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile

“A most welcome addition to the literature on Chile. Natascha Scott-Stokes gives us a broad overview of this remarkable land, weaving together natural history, Spanish explorers and colonizers, and the country’s troubled recent history.”—Mary Helen Spooner, author of The General’s Slow Retreat: Chile after Pinochet