An edition of The Songlines (1987)

Songlines (Picador Books)

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An edition of The Songlines (1987)

Songlines (Picador Books)

New Ed edition

by and

  • ★★★ 3.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 37 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches us how Aboriginal Australians perceive their landscapes, and negotiate with each other in that vast, nomadic environment.

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Pan Books Ltd
Pages
336

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Subjects

Aboriginal Australians, Australian aborigine, Description and travel, Journeys, Social life and customs, Travel, anthropology, ethnography, nomadism, nomads, outback, stories, tales, Chatwin, bruce, 1940-1989, Australia, description and travel, Australia, social life and customs

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Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)

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Australia

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Cover of: Songlines
Songlines
May 5, 2005, Random House UK
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Cover of: Songlines (Picador Books)
Songlines (Picador Books)
June 10, 1988, Pan Books Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Cover of: The songlines
The songlines
1988, Penguin Books
in English
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Cover of: The songlines
The songlines
1987, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.
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"IN ALICE SPRINGS - a grid of scorching streets where men in long white socks were forever getting in and out of Land Cruisers - I met a Russian who was mapping the scared sites of the Aboriginals."

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Paperback
Number of pages
336

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OL10489121M
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ISBN 10
0330300822
ISBN 13
9780330300827
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23127
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