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Bruce Chatwin
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia was published in 1977 it heralded the arrival of a…
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The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. In this magical account Chatwin recalls his travels across the length and breadth…
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Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts
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Nicholas Shakespeare
A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby’s director, archaeologist, Sunday Times journalist and…
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IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as…
Jonathan Chatwin
Aimed at both the academic and the general reader. There is a large component of entirely new material that will ensure its appeal to those currently working on Chatwin in…
Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as new interviews with his family and friends, Anywhere Out of the World provides the definitive critical perspective upon the literary life…
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Bruce Chatwin’s bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz.
In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. His…
On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. In depicting the lives…
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds…
This little masterpiece of travel, history, and adventure (The New York Times) is Bruce Chatwick’s exquisite account of his journey through the uppermost part of the earth –that stretch of…
Includes letters that give a synopsis of the author’s changing interests and concerns throughout his life.
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A cause d'un fragment de peau de brontosaure expose dans une vitrine chez sa grand-mere, a cause d'une carte de Patagonie accrochee au mur du salon d'Eileen Gray, le jeune…
The late author takes readers on a trip through his inner life and across the globe, in a personal selection of stories, profiles, and travelogues recounting his intellectual and spiritual…
Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span…
Sybille Bedford
Originaly published: London: Gollancz, 1953.
A collected edition of Bruce Chatwin’s acclaimed, captivating novels - On the Black Hill, Utz and The Viceroy of Ouidah - with an introduction by Hanya Yanagihara While Bruce Chatwin…
Robert Byron
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana. This title presents a record of…
First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc. 1987; published in Penguin Books 1988 –T.p. verso.
An elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. In depicting the lives of the twins and their…
