In Patagonia
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the wind-scoured tip of South America, where the land dissolves into myth and the horizon stretches into eternity, Bruce Chatwin embarked on a journey that would redefine travel writing forever. In Patagonia chronicles Chatwin's obsessive pilgrimage to one of the world's most remote and forbidding landscapes — Argentine and Chilean Patagonia — driven by a childhood fascination with a piece of brontosaurus skin kept in his grandmother's cabinet. Along the way, he uncovers a cast of extraordinary characters: Welsh settlers clinging to their language in a foreign land, descendants of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, anarchists, and indigenous peoples whose cultures teeter on the edge of extinction. Chatwin's prose is a masterclass in lyrical precision — spare yet evocative, scholarly yet wildly adventurous — weaving history, mythology, and personal narrative into a seamless, hypnotic tapestry. First published in 1977, the book is widely regarded as a landmark of 20th-century travel literature, credited with revitalising an entire genre. His unique blend of reportage and imagination raises profound questions about exile, obsession, and the human compulsion to seek out the ends of the earth. For anyone who has ever felt the pull of a place that exists just beyond the map, In Patagonia remains an irresistible and enduring call to the wild.
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Format: Paperback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the wind-scoured tip of South America, where the land dissolves into myth and the horizon stretches into eternity, Bruce Chatwin embarked on a journey that would redefine travel writing forever. In Patagonia chronicles Chatwin's obsessive pilgrimage to one of the world's most remote and forbidding landscapes — Argentine and Chilean Patagonia — driven by a childhood fascination with a piece of brontosaurus skin kept in his grandmother's cabinet. Along the way, he uncovers a cast of extraordinary characters: Welsh settlers clinging to their language in a foreign land, descendants of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, anarchists, and indigenous peoples whose cultures teeter on the edge of extinction. Chatwin's prose is a masterclass in lyrical precision — spare yet evocative, scholarly yet wildly adventurous — weaving history, mythology, and personal narrative into a seamless, hypnotic tapestry. First published in 1977, the book is widely regarded as a landmark of 20th-century travel literature, credited with revitalising an entire genre. His unique blend of reportage and imagination raises profound questions about exile, obsession, and the human compulsion to seek out the ends of the earth. For anyone who has ever felt the pull of a place that exists just beyond the map, In Patagonia remains an irresistible and enduring call to the wild.