A new collection of letters gives a new portrait of one of the 20th-century's greatest travel writers, Bruce Chatwin. Wit, charm, and even vulnerability shine through his snobbery and self ...

Bruce Chatwin, a former specialist at Sotheby’s, is the subject of a new film by Werner Herzog exploring their collaboration and friendship.

Chatwin, who died in 1989, was a fantastical creature: boyishly handsome, endlessly restless, a connoisseur of oddity, as likely to turn up in Patagonia or the Australian Outback as Paris or London.

On a crisp winter morning 50 years ago Bruce Chatwin stepped off New Bond Street and into the galleries of Sotheby's for the first time. He was an 18-year-old, dough-faced boy straight from ...

I n Patagonia made Bruce Chatwin famous overnight. On the book’s publication in 1977, reviewers rightly compared it to Mandeville’s Travels, to Alexander Kinglake’s Eothen and Robert Byron ...

“Bruce Chatwin was searching for a strangeness” as he traveled to remote parts of the world, Werner Herzog says early in Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin.He sought out ancient loci of ...

“Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin” is Herzog’s long-gestating interrogation into the work of Chatwin, who died in 1989. It’s also a tribute to a clearly much-missed friend.

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1. In Patagonia by Bruce ChatwinOne of the most celebrated travel books of all time, Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia offers an intimate exploration of the southernmost region of South America ...

Phone calls to France confirmed Chatwin’s account (a sensible move: Chatwin always preferred a good story to the literal ...

Charles Bruce Chatwin was born into middle-class solidity in 1940. His father, a successful lawyer, was off serving in the Royal Navy. Chatwin was educated at Marlborough, and, in 1958, went to work ...