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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 014011291X
ISBN-13: 9780140112917
Jun 1988
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
204 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book (a designation Chatwin disliked), a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes lyrically about the landscapes, the history, and most of all the vast variety of people he meets, whom he describes in evocative, impressionistic vignettes that are not unlike short stories. Chatwin's odd, fanciful, perhaps not always literally true, but very appealing little book has become an unexpected classic of travel literature.
| Size | | Length: | 204 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Exciting, boisterous, and bizarre."
jacket copy - Paul Theroux
"[Chatwin] writes very well indeed in a clear, streamlined...style that reminds you a little of Evelyn Waugh."
New Statesman - Maurice Richardson (10/21/1977)
"[A] little masterpiece of travel, history, and adventure....[I]t is a wonderful read. For Mr. Chatwin is a marvelous story teller."
New York Times Book Review - Hilton Kramer (07/30/1978)
"[T]ravel writing is a form full of opportunities; it's very primitive, but you can do almost anything with it, as Bruce Chatwin did with IN PATAGONIA."
New Yorker - Redmond O'Hanlon (10/13/1997)
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