Para un aborigen australiano, su país es como una inmensa partitura musical: allí donde pisa puede cantar canciones inmemoriales que hacen surgir el paisaje, otorgan derechos territoriales, posibilitan el trueque simbólico y permiten...
«Todos necesitamos un reto que nos sirva como excusa para vivir», decía Bruce Chatwin, «y para el viajero esa excusa reside en cualquier sueño». Aquí el acicate para el sueño y para el viaje es un trozo...
Para un aborigen australiano, su país es como una inmensa partitura musical: allí donde pisa puede cantar canciones inmemoriales que hacen surgir el paisaje, otorgan derechos territoriales, posibilitan el trueque simbólico y permiten...
«Todos necesitan del acicate de una busca para vivir; para el viajero ese acicate reside en cualquier sueño», decía el autor. Aquí la excusa para el sueño y para el viaje es un trozo de piel de diez centímetr...
«Todos necesitan del acicate de una busca para vivir; para el viajero ese acicate reside en cualquier sueño», decía Bruce Chatwin. Aquí la excusa para el sueño y para el viaje es un trozo de piel de diez centí...
Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, having become one of Sotheby's youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world
Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. Set in the desolate lands of the Australian Outback, it tells the story of Chatwin's search for the source and meaning...
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political...
Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen...
A 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 and their interactions...
The late Bruce Chatwin carved out a literary career as unique as any writer's in this century: his books included In Patagonia, a fabulist travel narrative, The Viceroy of Ouidah, a mock-historical tale of a Brazilian slave-trader in 19th century Africa,...
Francisco Manoel da Silva, a poor Brazilian sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey in the early 1800s, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah, and friend to the mad,...
With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale. Bruce Chatwin's journey to a remote country in search of a strange beast brings along with it a cast of fascinating character...