Chatwin’s brilliantly unique record of his adventures in Patagonia and the fascinating people he meets along the way.
Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784875367
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 238 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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 - Colin Thubron, Guardian
A true classic in travel writing. I read this book before my maiden trip to Patagonia last year. Not only is it a great story, but also a great way of planning any trip to this part of the world.
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The stories are hard to follow. The amount of small chapters and flip flopping between his accounts can sometimes interrupt the flow of the book. The last few chapters did not need to feature at all.
Having read Nicholas Shakespeare's encyclopaedic biography of Chatwin, I was curious to see what the fuss was about. And my what a read! A tour de force with beautiful descriptive passages but in parts tedious... More
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