The Songlines

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Paperback, 294 pages

Published Dec. 31, 2011 by Penguin Classics.

ISBN:
978-0-14-242257-1
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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.

9 editions

Subjects

  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Description and travel
  • Journeys
  • Social life and customs
  • Travel
  • anthropology
  • ethnography
  • nomadism
  • nomads
  • outback
  • stories
  • tales
  • Chatwin, bruce, 1940-1989
  • Australia, description and travel
  • Australia, social life and customs
  • Aboriginal australians