The songlines

by Bruce Chatwin

No cover — Bruce Chatwin: The songlines (1988, Penguin Books)

295 pages

English language

Published Sept. 15, 1988 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-009429-9

(12 reviews)

Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches us how Aboriginal Australians perceive their landscapes, and negotiate with each other in that vast, nomadic environment.

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5 stars

A great book, one of my favorites, devoid of cliche, indignant to the form that a book should take, pompous, presumptuous, gracefully crafted and simple.