Nicholas Shakespeare — Bruce Chatwin
Harvill Press 1999 Hardback, 638pp. Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin, whose works strangely compelling combination of research, first-hand experience, myth, and mystification may have been the real substance of his seemingly contradictory life. Chatwin s first book, In Patagonia, became an international bestseller, revived the art of travel writing, and inspired a generation to set out in search of adventure. Chatwin became a celebrity, while remaining a conundrum. With little formal education, he had become a director of Sotheby s. DJ; Heavy. DJ slightly worn along the edges and sunned at the spine - otherwise very good. (ISBN: 9781860465444). Good.
