What am I doing here / by Bruce Chatwin
1990, 1st edition. London : Pan Books. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #414614
Physical description; vii, 367 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 367). Contents; 1. Written for friends and family (Assuanta -- Assuanta 2 -- Your father's eyes are blue again) -- 2. Strange encounters (A coup -- The Lyman family -- Until my blood is pure -- The Chinese geomancer) -- 3. Friends (George Ortiz -- Kevin Volana -- Howard Hodgkin -- At dinner with Diana Vreeland) -- 4. Encounters (A visit / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- Madeleine Vionnet -- The riddle of the Pampa / Maria Reiche -- Architect / Konstantin Melnikov -- André Malraux -- Werner Herzog in Ghana) -- 5. Russia (George Costakis: The story of an art collector in the Soviet Union -- The Volga) -- 6. China (Heavenly horses -- Rock's world -- Nomad invasions) -- 7. People (Shamdev: The wolf-boy -- The very sad story of Salah Bougrine -- Donald Evans) -- 8. Travel (On Yeti tracks -- A lament for Afghanistan) -- 9. Two more people (Ernst Jünger: An aesthete at war -- On the road with Mrs. G.) -- 10. Coda (The Albatross -- Chiloe) -- 11. Tales of the art world (The Duke of M- -- The Bey -- The fly -- My Modi). Subjects; Jünger, Ernst 1895-1998. Strahlungen. Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989 ; Biography. Chatwin, Bruce 1940-1989 Travel. Travel Accounts of. Travelers ; Biography. Voyages and travels ; Anecdotes. Voyages and travels ; Biography. Travel writing. Travel Biographies. Expository writing.
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