Part history, part rousing adventure tale, this story of an explorer and his incredible destiny takes readers to the southern of tip of Patagonia.

Argentinian Julio Popper was an engineer and adventurer with an exceptional destiny. Capable of thinking quickly and accurately and putting words into action, he had big ideas, and nothing could stop him. He enjoyed ridiculing his enemies and feared nothing and no one. His life was a fight from start to finish. Born in 1857 in Romania, he died under strange circumstances at the age of 35, after making a fortune in gold from Patagonia and founding a nation within a nation.