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Chatwin

THE SONGLINES

Jonathan Cape, 1987

175,50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, États-Unis d'Amérique)

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Détails

Année
1987
Lieu d'édition
London
Auteur
Chatwin
Éditeurs
Jonathan Cape
Edition
First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and in the illustrated dustjacket. 293 pp. A fine copy.

Edizione: chatwin's novel of ideas set in aboriginal camps of central australia. 'songlines' are what europeans call the labyrinth of invisible pathways that meander all over australia. to the aboriginals, they are the 'footprints of the ancestors'. these trails are both intricate sources of personal identity and territorial markers. bruce chatwin traces the aboriginal culture through them.
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