Patagonia Revisited by Bruce Chatwin

Patagonia Revisited by Bruce Chatwin

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Explores the instances in which the "final capes of exile" have affected the literary imagination, and tracks down some of the extraordinary travellers, past and present, from W.H. Hudson, to Captain Joshua Slocum and Butch Cassidy. Paul Theroux has won the Whitbread Literary Award.

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Patagonia Revisited by Bruce Chatwin

Since its discovery by Magellan in 1520, Patagonia was known as a contry of black fogs and whirlwinds at the end of the inhabited world. It immediately lodged itself in the imagination as a metaphor for "the ultimate", the point beyond which one could not go. In this book, Chatwin and Theroux join forces to explores the instances in which the "final capes of exile" have affected the literary imagination, and to track down some of the extraordinary travellers, past and present, from W.H. Hudson, to Captain Joshua Slocum and Butch Cassidy. Paul Theroux has won the Whitbread Literary Award. This book had its origins in an entertainment the writers gave for The Royal Geographical Society, at a time when Theroux was following Chatwin's "In Patagonia" with "The Old Patagonian Express".
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ISBN 13 9780224036078
ISBN 10 0224036076
Title Patagonia Revisited
Author Bruce Chatwin
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1992-11-19
Number of pages 64
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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