In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin
The end of the world, described precisely.
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you're drawn to places that feel like they exist outside of time and want someone to take you there in prose
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Chatwin went to Patagonia chasing a piece of skin he'd seen as a child in his grandmother's cabinet — a fragment of something prehistoric and impossible. What he found was a landscape so extreme it rearranged his sentences. Part travel writing, part mythology, part obsession. The book that invented a genre and still hasn't been beaten at it. A visitor who saw clearly because he arrived looking for something strange.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Argentina • Latin America
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Argentina
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