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Aconcagua Publishing, Toronto, Published 2016. Paperback, 226 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Edited by Olga Stein.
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In Good condition. Pale green pictorial covers with a black-and-white photograph of a volleyball match framed in a weathered window on front cover; mild shelf and edge wear with some color loss along edges, scuffing, and light soiling; mottled discoloration across front cover. Spine binding tight. Inscribed by the author to previous owners on title page, signed with first name and dated 2017. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Memoir of Hernan E. Humana, who played eleven seasons on Chile's national volleyball team, competing under the national flag during the Pinochet dictatorship before leaving for Canada. Includes chapters on his family and childhood in southern Chile, the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the 1973 coup, a military court, the National Stadium, and friends lost to the regime, among them the filmmakers Jorge Muller and Carmen Bueno. Later chapters cover exile and resettlement in Toronto. Illustrated with family photographs and team and match photographs from the 1950s through 1981. Humana went on to coach volleyball at York University and coached John Child and Mark Heese to bronze in beach volleyball at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Contents: Introduction; Family; Strongest Earthquake on Earth; First Sport Involvement; Political Awakening; Basketball; High School Years; Siblings; Army Years; National Championships; University of Chile, Santiago; First International Games; Trauko, Quintero, and Lucho Tello; South-American Championships, Bucaramanga 1973; Coup D'Etat, Night Falls on Chile; Running away from Santiago; The Decision; National Stadium, Youth Festival; Military Court; Basketball in Valdivia; Back to Santiago; First International Event Under Pinochet, Bolivia; Filmakers and Death: Jorge Muller and Carmen Bueno; South American Championship, Paraguay; Fisico, Second Attempt at a Degree; National Anthem; Physical Education vs. Engineering School; Battling with Ghosts; Arts and Reality; Daniel Camousseigt Vera, El Conde; Romance; Elianita Corona; Myriam Paredes Blaise; Guillermo Elgueta; Benjamin Arditi; La Parcela, La Reina Alta; Villa Olimpica; Playing Style; Bertita's; Graduation and Departure; Sport as a Weapon Against Tyranny; Leaving Chile; Arriving in Canada; Learning Canadian Ways; My Family Five Years Later; Dressing "La Roja" for the Last Time; Final South American Championship.