by Bruce Chatwin · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099458159
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«The Songlines» is Bruce Chatwin's travel book, published by Vintage in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Chatwin travels through the Australian outback to understand the 'songlines' or dreamings of the Aborigines: invisible paths along which their ancestors 'sang' the world into existence. The book blends travel writing, the novel of ideas and spiritual autobiography, and reflects on nomadism and human origins.
This book was originally published in 1987 and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1988.
For readers of travel literature, anthropology and exploration memoirs, with an interest in Australian Aboriginal culture and nomadic thought.
Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".
