The Songlines

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Chatwin, Bruce

BuchPaperback

Verkaufsrang1970inFiction

CHF21.90

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Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-976991-0

ProduktartBuch

EinbandPaperback

VerlagVintage, London

Erscheinungsdatum03.12.1998

ReiheVintage Classics

Seiten293 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 132 mm, Höhe 198 mm, Dicke 22 mm

Gewicht216 g

WarengruppeEnglish Books

KategorieFiction

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Chatwin, Bruce

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.