WHAT AM I DOING HERE? (PICADOR BOOKS)

Bruce Chatwin

ISBN 10: 033031310X / ISBN 13: 9780330313100

Edité par Picador, 1990

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• Titre: WHAT AM I DOING HERE? (PICADOR BOOKS)
• Éditeur: Picador
• Date de parution: 1990
• Langue: espagnol
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 033031310X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780330313100
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 1750850071.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: 46943435
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Synopsis

A personal selection of stories, profiles and travelogues. Chatwin goes in search of the Yeti in Nepal and follows the footsteps of his mentor, Robert Byron, in Afghanistan. It reveals his view of the world returning to the theme of "The Songlines".

Revue de presse

"As a writer he was unclassifiably interesting: lucid, ironic, cool. He seemed to owe nothing to anybody." (Colin Thubron Sunday Times)

"Chatwin is equally fascinating on places. He goes yeti-hunting in Nepal, and magnificently evokes the Himalayas' seductive harshness. He visits Afghanistan in the steps of his own favourite writer, Robert Byron, and reveals something no current news report ever succeeds in doing why anyone should want to spend time in that beautiful, tormented land...human existence at least as Chatwin sees it is gloriously open-ended, unpredictable and exotic" (Sunday Times)

"One of its chief delights is that it contains so many of its author'sbest anecdotes, his choicest performances" (Salman Rushdie Observer)

"I like the combination of its far-reaching quality and the minute precision with which his thoughts are charted" (Rose Tremain Sunday Times)

"All the writing in this volume demonstrates Bruce Chatwin’s loathing of the humdrum, the dreary, the predictable. What attracted him was the unusual, the weird and wonderful... the journalist in him (strongly present) knew a good story when it heard one" (Margaret Forster Guardian)