In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin
The end of the world, described precisely.
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
- Chile • Latin America
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Chile
