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By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9780099769514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9781784875367
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Bruce Chatwins In Patagonia was published in 1977 it heralded the arrival of a startling new talent in British literature. All readers recognised its timeless quality Auberon Waugh went as far as to call it `a classic.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9780099769910
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1998
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9780099466147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. Comprising material collected over two decades from hundreds of contacts across five continents, Chatwin's letters are a valuable and illuminating record of one of the greatest and most enigmatic writers of the twentieth century.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9780099769712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9780099769613
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph, but his friendship with the mad, mercurial king of Dahomey is fraught with danger and threatens his dream.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9780099770015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz.


(Paperback)

By: Bruce Chatwin

ISBN: 9780099769811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'