The Songlines (Picador Bks.)

By: Bruce Chatwin

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Synopsis: Bruce Chatwin, author of In Patagonia, ventures into the desolate land of Outback Australia to learn the meaning of the Aboriginals' ancient "Dreaming-tracks." Along these timeless paths, amongst the fortune hunters and redneck Australians, racist policemen and mysterious Aboriginal holy men, he discovers a wondrous vision of man's place in the world. A blend of travelogue, memoir, history, philosophy, science, meditation, and commonplace book... Chatwin's astonishing style captures the metamorphoses of his own 'Walkabout' He takes the travel genre beyond exoticism and the simple picturesque into the metaphysical.