'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian
Bruce Chatwin (Author)
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 travel. Between
1972 and 1975 he worked for the Sunday Times, before announcing his
next departure in a telegram- 'Gone to Patagonia for six months.'
This trip inspired the first of Chatwin's books, In Patagonia,
which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and
launched his writing career. Two of his books have been made into
feature films- The Viceroy of Ouidah (retitled Cobra Verde),
directed by Werner Herzog, and Andrew Grieve's On the Black Hill.
On publication The Songlines went straight to Number 1 in the
Sunday Times bestseller list and remained in the top ten for nine
months. On the Black Hill won the Whitbread First Novel Award while
his novel Utz was nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize. He died in
January 1989, aged forty-eight.
Nicholas Shakespeare (Introducer)
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much
of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books
have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The
Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award),
Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs, Inheritance, Priscilla and Six
Minutes in May. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice,
was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Literature.
Elliptical and alive, this is a brilliant travel book
*Observer*
It is hard to pin down what makes In Patagonia so unique, but, in
the end, it is Chatwin’s brilliant personality that makes it what
it is… His form of travel was not about getting from A to B. It was
about internal landscapes.
*Sunday Times*
The chameleon traveller…who wrote books in a genre of their own,
and whose life was his own subtlest creation… a complex,
flamboyantly gifted and rather tragic figure
*Guardian*
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