The Songlines
$43.56
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 June 2012
Summary
The Songlines: A Journey Through Aboriginal Australia
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. Set in the desolate lands of the Australian Outback, it tells the story of Chatwin’s search for the source and meaning of the ancient “dreaming tracks” o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142422571 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0142422576 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Bruce Chatwin, Rory Stewart |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“A blend of travelogue, memoir, history, philosophy, science, meditation, and commonplace book…Chatwin’s astonishing style captures the metamorphoses of his own ‘Walkabout’….He takes the travel genre beyond exoticism and the simple picturesque into the metaphysical.“—The Boston Globe
The riches of The Songlines are varied and artfully stashed. Chatwin’s physical journey over Australia’s parched hide corresponds to his intellectual excursions, which are full of surprising turns.“—Time
“No ordinary book ever issues from Bruce Chatwin. Each bears the imprint of a dazzingly original mind.“—Newsday
About The Author
Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. His other books are What Am I Doing Here and Anatomy of Restlessness, posthumous anthologies of shorter works, and Far Journeys, a collection of his photographs that also includes selections from his travel notebooks.
Rory Stewart is the author of The Prince of the Marshes and The Places in Between.
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