What am I doing here / by Bruce Chatwin

Chatwin, Bruce (1940-1989)

ISBN 10: 033031310X / ISBN 13: 9780330313100

Published by London : Pan Books, 1990

About this Item

Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; vii, 367 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 367). Contents; 1. Written for friends and family (Assuanta -- Assuanta 2 -- Your father's eyes are blue again) -- 2. Strange encounters (A coup -- The Lyman family -- Until my blood is pure -- The Chinese geomancer) -- 3. Friends (George Ortiz -- Kevin Volana -- Howard Hodgkin -- At dinner with Diana Vreeland) -- 4. Encounters (A visit / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- Madeleine Vionnet -- The riddle of the Pampa / Maria Reiche -- Architect / Konstantin Melnikov -- André Malraux -- Werner Herzog in Ghana) -- 5. Russia (George Costakis: The story of an art collector in the Soviet Union -- The Volga) -- 6. China (Heavenly horses -- Rock's world -- Nomad invasions) -- 7. People (Shamdev: The wolf-boy -- The very sad story of Salah Bougrine -- Donald Evans) -- 8. Travel (On Yeti tracks -- A lament for Afghanistan) -- 9. Two more people (Ernst Jünger: An aesthete at war -- On the road with Mrs. G.) -- 10. Coda (The Albatross -- Chiloe) -- 11. Tales of the art world (The Duke of M- -- The Bey -- The fly -- My Modi). Subjects; Jünger, Ernst 1895-1998. Strahlungen. Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989 ; Biography. Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989 Travel. Travel Accounts of. Travelers ; Biography. Voyages and travels ; Anecdotes. Voyages and travels ; Biography. Travel writing. Travel Biographies. Expository writing. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What am I doing here / by Bruce Chatwin
• Publisher: London : Pan Books
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 033031310X
• ISBN 13: 9780330313100
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

'His last book, a "personal selection" of essays, portraits, meditations, travel writing and other unclassifiable Chatwinian forms of prose, was put together during his final, terrible year of wasting away...one of its chief delights is that it contains so many of it's author's best anecdotes, his choicest performances'
Salman Rushdie, Observer

Review

This is the last of Bruce Chatwin's works to be published while he was still alive (he penned the introduction in 1988, a few months before he died). It's a collection of Chatwin gems--profiles, essays, and travel stories that span the world, from trekking in Nepal and sailing down the Volga to working on a film with Werner Herzog in Ghana and traveling with Indira Gandhi in India. Chatwin excels, as usual, in the finely honed tale.