The Songlines Summary
Bruce Chatwin

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THE SONGLINES records the visit Bruce Chatwin makes to Australia as a student of cultures, languages and the evolutions of humanity in all its forms. He has come to study the Aboriginal Songlines out of a fascination that began in his childhood with Aboriginal culture and an adult fascination with their similarity to other transient people groups, having studied Bedouins, gypsies, and the writings of several thinkers who believe walking the...

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Bruce Chatwin Biographies (3)

Bruce Chatwin

5,226 words, approx. 18 pages

Chatwin was born in England into a family of " ... professional people, architects and lawyers, who did ¬ go in for trade. There were, however, scattered among my forebears and relatives, a number... Read more

(Charles) Bruce Chatwin

5,483 words, approx. 19 pages

"I have a compulsion to wander and a compulsion to return--a homing instinct like a migrating bird," Bruce Chatwin wrote in a 24 February 1969 letter to Tom Maschler, his editor at Jonathan Cape. "Tru... Read more

(Charles) Bruce Chatwin

7,814 words, approx. 27 pages

Despite the critical acclaim for his travel sketches and books, Bruce Chatwin disliked being labeled a travel writer. He conceded, however, that travel was central to his writing and that he could not... Read more

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