Bruce Chatwin, Author Penguin Books $16 (294p) ISBN 978-0-14-009429-9
PW praised Chatwin's ""entertaining'' and ``resonant'' reflections on the distinctions between settled people and wanderers, and between human aggression and pacifism, as he searches central Australia for the pathways along which aborigines travel...
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Bruce Chatwin, Author Penguin Books $16 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-025698-7
Essays, book reviews and more from the late novelist and travel writer. (Aug.)
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Bruce Chatwin, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80605-8
In his new book, Chatwin (In Patagonia, etc.) explores the area around Alice Springs, in central Australia, where he ponders the source and meaning of nomadism, the origins of human violence and the emergence of mankind amid arid conditions....
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Bruce Chatwin, Author Viking Books $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-82497-7
Chatwin is a protean writer ( On the Black Hill , The Songlines ) always capable of surprising and entertaining his readers. In this slim volume, he draws a satirical portrait of life in a Socialist stateand concludes that human nature is the same...
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Bruce Chatwin, Author Viking Books $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-82508-0
Whether he is cruising down the Volga, gauging the effects of French colonialism in Algeria or searching for the Yeti (``Abominable Snowman'') in the Himalayas, Chatwin, who died recently, exudes natural curiosity and a nose for adventure. By the...
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Bruce Chatwin, Author Viking Books $22.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-670-86859-9
Chatwin (In Patagonia), who died in 1989 at 49, was a brilliant writer of travel-related essays and fiction. This aptly titled posthumous volume brings together nearly all that remains of his uncollected writings. Even the book reviews fit Chatwin's
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Bruce Chatwin, Author, Francis Wyndham, Editor, David King, Editor Viking Books $35 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-85148-5
Chatwin, who died in 1989, left behind thousands of photographs as well as 50 notebooks which were his source material for In Patagonia , The Songlines and his other books. This album, which combines 100 color photographs with excerpts from his...
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Bruce Chatwin, selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare, Viking, $35 (554p) ISBN 978-0-670-02246-5
Celebrated English travel writer and novelist Chatwin (In Patagonia) died of AIDS 20 years ago; he was only 48. His letters—from such far-flung locales as Sweden, Afghanistan, his beloved Greece, Turkey, Africa, and, of course, Patagonia—are...
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Bruce Chatwin, Author, Jeff Gnass, Photographer, Paul Theroux, With Random House (NY) $25 (109p) ISBN 978-0-87156-500-6
Some 100 exquisite landscape photographs of this mythic region at the end of the earth provide a foil for the authors' lecture before the Royal Geographic Society, first published (without illustrations) in 1986. Both the late Chatwin ( In Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin, Author, Jeff Gnass, Photographer, Jeff Cnass, Photographer Sierra Club Books for Children $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-359-0
Theroux and Chatwin trace the history and literary impact of the wild, desolate South American region; includes 55 color photos by Jeff Gnass. (Mar.)
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