An edition of The Songlines (1987)

Songlines

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An edition of The Songlines (1987)

Songlines

New Ed edition

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  • ★★★ 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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Publisher
Random House UK
Pages
304

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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
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
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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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First Sentence

"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."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
304
Dimensions
7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
Weight
7.7 ounces

ID Numbers

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OL9274608M
ISBN 10
0099769913
ISBN 13
9780099769910
Library Thing
23127
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79907

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