Lucas Bridges

Who was Lucas Bridges?

Esteban Lucas Bridges was an Anglo-Argentine author, explorer, and rancher. After fighting with the British during World War I, he married and moved with his wife to South Africa, where they developed a ranch with her brother.

He was the third child of six and second son of Anglican missionary Reverend Thomas Bridges and "the third white native of Ushuaia" in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, at the southernmost tip of South America. He wrote The Uttermost Part of the Earth about his family's experiences in Tierra del Fuego, but it was particularly about the Yahgan and Selk'nam indigenous peoples and the effects on them of colonization by Europeans.