Bruce Chatwin, Author Viking Books $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-82497-7 Chatwin is a protean writer ( On the Black Hill , The Songlines ) always capable of surprising and entertaining his readers.

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 ...

Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin Selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (Viking, 554 pp., $35) The expression “to embroider the truth” was already current ...

"You asked me to write you a letter about my proposed book on nomads," Bruce Chatwin wrote an interested publisher in 1969. He was 28 years old, and it would be eight years before his remarkable ...

Bruce Chatwin, the brilliant English writer and stylish nomad, died from AIDS-related complications in early 1989. His memorial service, held in a Greek Orthodox church in London on the day that ...

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 ...

Unless a writer is very dull - and whatever names Bruce Chatwin attracted, dullard does not figure among them - his collected letters inevitably provide a salutary glimpse into the person and his ...

Bruce Chatwin combined fact and fiction in his books in an unprecedented way. His death in 1988, at the age of 48 and having published only five books, robbed the literary world of a talent of ...

UNDER THE SUN The Letters of Bruce Chatwin Selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare Viking. 554 pp. $35 With the publication in 1977 of his first book, "In Patagonia," the ...

During the winter of 1969, Bruce Chatwin wrote an exceptionally long letter to Tom Maschler, the head of Jonathan Cape. "You asked me to write you a letter about my proposed book on nomads," he wrote.