by Bruce Chatwin · Pan Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330300827
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«The Songlines» is Bruce Chatwin's travelogue, published by Pan Books Ltd in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Bruce Chatwin travels through Australia to investigate the songlines: invisible routes that cross the continent and follow ancestral boundaries, traced by the ancestors whose songs narrate the creation of the land. The narrative interweaves Chatwin's encounters in the Australian outback with reflections on nomadism, language, and the relationship between territory and memory.
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1988; Chatwin is also the author of 'In Patagonia'.
For readers interested in travel writing and anthropology, and for those studying Australian Aboriginal culture; used in university humanities courses.
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".
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