IN PATAGONIA.
by Chatwin, Bruce (1940 - 1989)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to corner of front flap of dj)./like
- ISBN 10
- 0671400452
- ISBN 13
- 9780671400453
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Summit Books,, (1978). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to corner of front flap of dj).. First US printing. Chatwin's first book, one which redefined travel writing, a record of a six month stay in Patagonia in 1974 but much more, including reflections on his childhood and the stories of other travellers to the area. Chatwin himself called it a "Quest or Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile and its structure is as old as literature itself." Sources. 203 pp.
Synopsis
In Patagonia is an English travel book by Bruce Chatwin, published in 1977. Its ingenuity has become a source of inspiration for travel writers.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72891
- Title
- IN PATAGONIA.
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce (1940 - 1989)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to corner of front flap of dj).
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671400452
- ISBN 13
- 9780671400453
- Publisher
- Summit Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1978)
- Keywords
- south america, argentina, chile, first book, memoir, modern first edition,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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