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iSBN 978-0-14-242257-1 $16.00 ($17.00 CAN)
Literature/Travel 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 320 pp.
Rights: N15 Pub history: Penguin pb 978-0-14-009429-9
On sale: 6/26/2012
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“ Chatwin’s bravest work yet,
the one in which we come
closest to penetrating
his mind and heart . . . no one
will put it down unmoved.”
—The New York Times
Book Review
n A national bestseller when first published
110 Academic Marketing
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new
edition of Bruce Chatwin’s classic work
with a new introduction by Rory Stewart
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin
Introduction by Rory Stewart
Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography,
The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin’s most famous books. Set
in the desolate lands of the Australian Outback, it tells the story
of Chatwin’s search for the source and meaning of the ancient
“dreaming tracks” of the Aborigines—the labyrinth of invisible
pathways by which their ancestors “sang” the world into existence.
This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller
when it was published in 1987, engages all of Chatwin’s lifelong
passions, including his obsession with travel, his interest in the
nomadic way of life, and his hunger to understand man’s origins
and nature.
n Introducer Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between was a
New York Times bestseller
BRuCe ChAtwin (1940–1989) is the author of the acclaimed
books In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, Utz, and On the Black Hill,
winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He died outside Nice,
France, on January 18, 1989.
RoRy stewARt is a member of the British Parliament and the
author of the New York Times bestseller The Places In Between and,
most recently, Can Intervention Work? (with Gerald Knaus). He lives in
Dufton, England.