Description: + Inscribed message inside cover. + First Edition First Printing + See photos for condition. + Message me for any questions/additional photos. In this extraordinary new book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth century though rare in ours a story of ideas in which two companions, trav- eling and talking together, explore the hopes and dreams that animate both them and the people they encounter. Set in almost uninhabitable regions of Central Australia, The Songlines asks and tries to answer these questions: Why is man the most restless, dissatisfied of animals? Why do wandering people conceive the world as perfect whereas sedentary ones always try to change it? Why have the great teachers. -Christ or the Buddha--recommended the Road as the way to salvation? Do we agree with Pascal that all man's troubles stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room?
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Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1987
Original/Facsimile: Original
Book Title: Songlines
Item Length: 9.6in.
Item Height: 1.1in.
Item Width: 5.7in.
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: General, Literary, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions, AU & Oceania
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
