Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin is an author.
Bruce Chatwin worked at Sotheby's as an art expert, went briefly blind, was told to look at distant horizons, and left for Patagonia. In Patagonia invented a kind of travel writing that mixes reportage, history and invention freely enough that several people he wrote about disputed their portrayals. He was obsessed with nomadism and wrote a lifetime of notes towards a book about it. He was forty-eight when he stopped.
Books (3)
Where to start with Bruce Chatwin
The catalogue holds three, all of them worth having. The Songlines is the closest he got to the nomad book, half Australian travelogue and half notebook, and it is the most argued-about. On the Black Hill is the novel, about twin brothers on a Welsh farm across eighty years, and it won the James Tait Black. The Viceroy of Ouidah is the strange short one about a Brazilian slave trader.