In Patagonia
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  • Published: 31 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448105618
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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In Patagonia

(Vintage Voyages)

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Paperback
6 Aug 2019
Paperback
7 Feb 2008
EBook
31 Oct 2012
Audiobook
24 Oct 2019
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A 40th anniversary special edition of this ground-breaking, thrilling and inspiring classic.


'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian
Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book

With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale. Bruce Chatwin’s journey to a remote country in search of a strange beast brings along with it a cast of fascinating characters. Their stories delay him on the road, but will have you tearing through to the book’s end.

‘It is hard to pin down what makes In Patagonia so unique, but, in the end, it is Chatwin’s brilliant personality that makes it what it is… His form of travel was not about getting from A to B. It was about internal landscapes’ Sunday Times
  • Published: 31 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448105618
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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About the author

Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, having become one of Sotheby's youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Between 1972 and 1975 he worked for the Sunday Times, before announcing his next departure in a telegram: 'Gone to Patagonia for six months.' This trip inspired the first of Chatwin's books, In Patagonia, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and launched his writing career. Two of his books have been made into feature films: The Viceroy of Ouidah (retitled Cobra Verde), directed by Werner Herzog, and Andrew Grieve's On the Black Hill. On publication The Songlines went straight to Number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list and remained in the top ten for nine months. On the Black Hill won the Whitbread First Novel Award while his novel Utz was nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize. He died in January 1989, aged forty-eight.

Also by Bruce Chatwin

The Songlines
The Novels
Under The Sun
Utz
What Am I Doing Here?
On The Black Hill
The Viceroy of Ouidah
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Praise for In Patagonia

Elliptical and alive, this is a brilliant travel book

Observer

It is hard to pin down what makes In Patagonia so unique, but, in the end, it is Chatwin’s brilliant personality that makes it what it is… His form of travel was not about getting from A to B. It was about internal landscapes.

Sunday Times

The chameleon traveller…who wrote books in a genre of their own, and whose life was his own subtlest creation… a complex, flamboyantly gifted and rather tragic figure

Colin Thubron, Guardian
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