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He died a decade ago at 48, but the six extraordinary books of Bruce
Chatwin鈥攁nthropologist, aesthete, escape artist and writer鈥攕till
inspire and confound. Most compelling of the lot is The Songlines, a novelistic
frame for his great obsession, nomadism. Famously restless himself, Chatwin
believed that the enlightened life is a journey paced on foot. The Songlines is
his proof: a hike at once physical and metaphysical, with Chatwin鈥檚 trail
through Aboriginal Oz reflected in his trawl through world literature,
philosophy and sociology. Connoisseurs of the wilder shores of science and art
will rejoice that Vintage has reissued all six books in paperback. The Songlines
is ISBN 0099769913 at 拢6.99.