ブルース・チャトウィン

「自分自身が最も強く影響を受けた作品は他でもない本書『ソングライン』である。この分厚い物語をガイドブック代わりに、ぼくはオーストラリアを北から南へと縦断した」――石川直樹（解説・写真）オーストラリア全土に迷路のようにのびる目にはみえない道―ソングライン。アボリジニの人々はその道々で出会ったあらゆるものの名前を歌いながら、世界を創りあげていった。かつてのドリームタイムに大陸を旅した伝説のトーテムの物語に導かれ、チャトウィンは赤土の大地に踏み出す。人はなぜ放浪するのか――絶えずさすらいつづけずにはいられない人間の性を追い求めたチャトウィンが、旅の終わりに見出したノマティックな生き方の真実とは?紀行文学の最高傑作を写真家・冒険家 …

Fascinated by Patagonia since an early childhood lust for Grandma's scrap of hairy Giant Sloth skin, Chatwin's also intrigued by odd miners and the log cabin built by Butch Cassidy in Cholila. In 1977 the London Observer called it "a brilliant travel book," and while Chatwin's no longer alive (he died in 1989), his …

Lewis and Benjamin Jones, identical twins, were born with the century on a farm on the English-Welsh border. For eighty years they live on the farm--sharing the same clothes, tilling the same soil, sleeping in the same bed. Their lives and the lives of their neighbors--farmers, drovers, clergymen, traders, …

Utz is a novel written by the British author Bruce Chatwin, first published in 1988. The novel follows the fortunes of Kaspar Utz who lives in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. Utz is a collector of Meissen porcelain and finds a way to travel outside the eastern bloc to acquire new pieces. Whilst in the West, Utz …

What Am I Doing Here is a book by British Author Bruce Chatwin and contains a collection of essays, profiles and travel stories from his life. It was the last book published during Chatwin's life and draws on various experiences from it. These experiences include trekking in Nepal, sailing down the Volga, interviewing …

The Viceroy of Ouidah is a novel published in 1980 by Bruce Chatwin, a British author.

Anatomy of Restlessness was published in 1997 and is a collection of unpublished essays, articles, short stories, and travel tales. This collection spans the twenty years of Bruce Chatwin's career as a writer. This book was brought together by Jan Borm and Matthew Graves following the death of Chatwin in 1989.

Winding Paths is a book containing a collection of photographs taken by British author Bruce Chatwin during his various travels. These include photographs from the period when he was writing his other works: In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines and Utz.