Esteban Lucas Bridges | |
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.jpg) Bridges in 1948 | |
| Born | 31 December 1874 Ushuaia |
| Died | 4 April 1949 Buenos Aires |
| Occupation | Author |
| Notable works | The Uttermost Part of the Earth |
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Esteban Lucas Bridges was an Anglo-Argentine author, explorer, and rancher. After fighting for the British during the First World War, he married and moved with his wife to South Africa, where they developed a ranch with her brother.
Bridges was the third child of six and second son of an Anglican missionary, the Reverend Thomas Bridges, (1842–98) and "the third white native of Ushuaia" (his elder brother, born in 1872, having been the first) in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, at the southernmost tip of South America.
Bridges wrote Uttermost Part of the Earth (1948) about his family's experiences in Tierra del Fuego, the Yahgan and Selk'nam indigenous peoples, and the effects on them of colonization by Europeans. The book was well reviewed, Madaline W. Nichols describing it as "fascinating" and "of basic ethnological importance".[1]