Translation Rights TQE / The voyages of the Penélope. The story of the oldest ship in the Malvinas War

On 11^th April 1982, just a few days before he was due to be released from military service, Roberto Herrcher then 19, is sent to fight in the Falkland Islands. In May the Argentine Navy requisitioned the Penelope and assigned a crew of seven to her that included young Herrscher. During a whole month the author was to live through the war without any knowledge of being on board a historic ship. Years later he followed the wake of the ‘Penelope’ –the smallest and oldest ship to take part in the Malvinas war– to uncover her history. The ship was originally built for an expedition to Patagonia led by Gunther Plüschow, a World War I German hero. In 1929 it was bought by an islander who renamed it Penelope. Herrscher traveled to Buenos Aires, the Falkkand Islands and Germany and brings together not only the fascinating story of the Penelope, also the lives of the islanders since the war up to the present days. As he investigated the Germany’s past, he came across the ghosts of war and unearthed details of his own past.

Praise for Los viajes del Penélope:

 “With its particular structure and the vivid experience in some of its pages Los viajes del Penélope, is a good approach to the chiaroscuros in the most modern and uneven war that Argentina had to face.” La Nación