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The SonglinesBruce Chatwin

The Songlines

Bruce Chatwin
1988335 pages
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27 editions · 6 languages

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Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches us how Aboriginal Australians perceive their landscapes, and negotiate with each other in that vast, nomadic environment.

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27 editions · 6 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Songlines
    Random House UK · 304 pages · 9780099769910
  • Audiobook · English · 1996
    Random House Audiobooks · 9781860219900
  • Paperback · English · 1994
    Picador · 336 pages · 9780330329521
  • Paperback · English · 1988
    Penguin Books · 295 pages · 9780140094299
  • Paperback · English · 1988
    Songlines (Picador Books)
    Pan Books Ltd · 336 pages · 9780330300827
  • Hardcover · English
    A Letter from Marble Bar (The Songlines)
    Jonathan Cape · 9780224021012
Aboriginal AustraliansAustralian aborigineDescription and travelJourneysSocial life and customsTravelanthropologyethnography