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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Fiction
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 land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcome and Charles Darwin formed part ...Show more
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics
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 he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road.
In Patagonia: 40th Anniversary Edition by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Travel
When Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia was published in 1977 it heralded the arrival of a startling new talent in British literature. Critics were surprised and spellbound by a story of an adventure which blurred the boundaries between travel writing, biography, history and memoir. All readers recognised its ...Show more
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the peopl ...Show more
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
"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. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the 20th century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their ...Show more
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Fiction
The tale of identical twin brothers who toil on the family farm in the wild and vibrant land of Wales and experience the oddities, wonders, and tragedies of human experience.
The Novels by Bruce Chatwin; Hanya Yanagihara (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction
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 is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novels must not be overlooked. Here we see a writer ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Bks.
Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Category: Travel Literature
The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this magical account Chatwin recalls his tra ...Show more