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 ...

"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, 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Travel books have long been a source of inspiration for adventurers, dreamers, and armchair travellers alike. Whether you seek the thrill of unknown lands or the serenity of a quiet retreat, these ...

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.

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 ...

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.