Description
Bruce Chatwin's extraordinary meditation on the ancient Aboriginal songlines of Australia—the invisible pathways that crisscross the continent and that constitute, for those who know how to read them, the entire map of the creation—weaves autobiography, anthropology, and philosophy into one of the most formally inventive and intellectually daring travel books ever written. Written with the extraordinary prose style and the restless intellectual energy that made Chatwin one of the most original writers in the English language, this is essential reading for every lover of travel literature and every person fascinated by the relationship between landscape, culture, and the sacred. A genuine masterpiece.
