Bruce Chatwin: 17 books

A Whitbread Award–winning novel of Welsh twins and an international bestseller about Aboriginal culture by “the brilliant English writer and stylish nomad” (Los Angeles Times). After his masterpiece of travel writing, In Patagonia, put him on the literary map, Bruce Chatwin penned a novel...

International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song—and humanity’s origins. Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the...

"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography." -William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London) The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment...

Per i lettori che conoscono e amano Bruce Chatwin "Anatomia dell’irrequietezza" diventerà una sorta di breviario, per quelli che hanno meno familiarità con l’opera del grande vagabondo sarà un’introduzione alle sue esperienze e alle sue idee, un viaggio con Chatwin alla scoperta...

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 expresar el alma del intérprete. Fascinado por estas...

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 a world of topics—from art and antiques to archaeology and architecture. This spirited collection of previously...

«Patagonia» dicevano Coleridge e Melville, per significare qualcosa di estremo. «Non c’è più che la Patagonia, la Patagonia, che si addica alla mia immensa tristezza» cantava Cendrars agli inizi di questo secolo. Dopo l’ultima guerra, alcuni ragazzi inglesi, fra cui l’autore di questo...

Whitbread Award Winner: A novel by the author of In Patagonia, about a pair of twins and their long, remarkable lives in the farmlands of Wales. For forty-two years, identical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones have shared a bed, a farm, and a life. But the world has scarred and warped them each...

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 centímetros cuadrados entregado a su abuela como regalo de bodas por un primo marino,...

The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions,...

Bruce Chatwin’s debut novel:  “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic) In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune....

Per gli aborigeni australiani, la loro terra era tutta segnata da un intrecciarsi di «Vie dei Canti» o «Piste del Sogno», un labirinto di percorsi visibili soltanto ai loro occhi: erano quelle le «Impronte degli Antenati» o la «Via della Legge». Dietro questo fenomeno, che apparve subito enigmatico...

Il libro in cui Bruce Chatwin raccolse, negli ultimi mesi prima della morte, quei pezzi dispersi della sua opera che avevano segnato altrettante tappe di una sola avventura, di tutta una vita intesa come «un viaggio da fare a piedi». Al seguito di Indira Gandhi o in visita da Ernst Jünger, alla...

An elegant novel set in Prague about the possibility of freedom in an unfree state, from the acclaimed author of The Songlines and In Patagonia Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years...