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	Knitting Circle Bruce Chatwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bruce Chatwin was educated at boarding school and at Marlborough.
		In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin A two-part television programme based on this biography which was broadcast on BBC television on 3rd/4th April 1999.
		As a writer, and as a human being, Bruce Chatwin was a maverick.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /brucechatwin.html (1415 words)

	Bruce Chatwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chatwin was born on May 13, 1940 in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
		Chatwin interviewed the ninety-three-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of Patagonia which she had painted.
		Chatwin was known as a socialite in addition to being a famous travel author.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_Chatwin (1166 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bruce Chatwin: Books: Nicholas Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chatwin's fallen-angel looks had withered from HIV by his death at 47 in 1988, but he had achieved a cult reputation as a writer-adventurer that shows no signs of fading.
		Chatwin (1940-89) referred to his legs as his "boys." His boys carried him to many exotic locals, long journeys that eventually led back to England, his home, his green tomb.
		Chatwin believed man was designed to be nomadic; he also loved to collect things, a love he turned to as he was dying from AIDS.
	www.amazon.ca /Bruce-Chatwin-Nicholas-Shakespeare/dp/0099289970 (466 words)

	Salon Travel \| "Bruce Chatwin: A Biography"
		In his small but superlative oeuvre, Chatwin (1940-89) fused fact, fiction, poetry, science and more than a little hoodoo, sometimes recklessly but always artfully, and always, at heart, as part of an impossibly ambitious attempt to explain the roots of human restlessness.
		Bruce Chatwin was born into a middle-class family in Birmingham, England, during the flagging of that rusted city's industrial prime -- think Cleveland in the '70s.
		Here is Chatwin in the flesh, the too-pretty blue-eyed Wunderkind stripped of pretense, stripped of myth but at last warmly and tremendously human.
	archive.salon.com /travel/feature/2000/03/01/chatwin (684 words)

	Review \| Bruce Chatwin
		Chatwin became a success in the United States with Patagonia and to this day there are backpackers walking towards the Antarctic with that Penguin paperback as their only guide.
		Chatwin puts forward a thesis, not actually his own, that the songs of the Aboriginals are a cross between a creation myth, an atlas and an Aboriginal man's personal story, all etched onto the trackless red heart of Australia.
		Chatwin also takes the whole of the research he had completed for his nomad book and works it into the story.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/chatwin.html (1521 words)

	Bruce Chatwin Book at Shop Ireland
		Chatwin displayed all the ruthlessness of many creative artist as he exploited his friends, and most especially his devoted and long suffering wife, in the pursuit of his destiny.
		Chatwin's life is ultimately more interesting than any of his works, as if actually reading about how he wrote his books rather than the end-product seems better.
		Bruce Chatwin is exposed with all his faults - and there are more of those than most would wish for themselves - yet at the same time, I shed a tear or two reading about his death.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/022403300X (636 words)

	Bruce Chatwin Information
		Chatwin interviewed the ninety-three-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of Patagonia which she had painted.
		The story is believed to be based on fact and in 2004 a woman, the housekeeper in Chatwin's story, came forward with the story that the Meissen figures, featured in the book, had not been destroyed, but in fact kept by her and saved.
		Chatwin was known as a socialite in addition to being a famous travel author.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Bruce_Chatwin (1143 words)

	Knitting Circle Bruce Chatwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bruce Chatwin was educated at boarding school and at Marlborough.
		In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin A two-part television programme based on this biography which was broadcast on BBC television on 3rd/4th April 1999.
		As a writer, and as a human being, Bruce Chatwin was a maverick.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/brucechatwin.html (1437 words)

	The Dictionary in Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia
		Chatwin presents the reader with a lexicon that reveals something of the Yaghan's way of life, their attention to detail, their closeness with nature, and their remarkable skill at reading the environment.
		Later in the chapter, Chatwin relates to the reader his knowledge of the Yaghans' lifestyle and suggests the culture and its people are superior to the Western existence he and his readers know.
		Chatwin conveys the message that the Yaghan Indians must be understood in their own right and not held to Western ideals and standards.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /post/uk/chatwin/gorman10.html (616 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
		Among the mass of papers that Chatwin bequeathed to the Bodelian Library just before he died from AIDS in 1989, was a four inch porcelain Toby jug figure, wearing a Homburg hat and green coat and carrying a Gladstone bag.
		Chatwin was no respecter of intellectual authority and those who contradicted his notions suffered the fate of caricature in his books.
		But Chatwin's success as a writer was not based upon his tendentious theories, but the medium in which he chose to present them.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/brucecha.html (696 words)

	Fall 96: Chatwin
		Chatwin was a notoriously enigmatic figure, one who cultivated his public persona in his prose as assiduously as he did the refined prose itself.
		At Chatwin's insistence, The Songlines, a unique combination of anthropology, science, memoir, history, and travel novel, was marketed as fiction, but it too was accused of misrepresentation; one woman, incensed over her portrayal as a greedy art trader, considered suing.
		Chatwin rejected the notion that he was a travel writer, refusing to be pigeonholed as one more Englishman abroad in the empire.
	www.akashkapur.com /chatwin.htm (3254 words)

	Exposure Magazine: Bruce Chatwin
		Chatwin weaves together curious observations with nuggets of historical information which manages to make this more than an account of a physical journey, and that, to me, is the essence of good travel writing.
		Chatwin links many divergent nomadic cultures from around the world, highlighting several similarities of development, and in time puts forward a credible case for nomadism as equal to the sedentary life that has become a universal norm.
		Chatwin's photographs also demonstrate keen awareness of the decay inherent in all life, littered with images of crumbling buildings, and tatty ramshackle shacks, all breathing what looks to be their last breath.
	members.tripod.com /snowburn/chatwin.htm (1573 words)

	Bruce Chatwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bruce Chatwin was born on May 13, 1940 in Yorkshire, England.
		Chatwin won several awards including the 1978 Hawthornden Prize, and the 1979 E. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Bruce Chatwin died of disease of the bone marrow in 1989 in Nice, France.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/chatwin_bruce.htm (269 words)

	BRUCE CHATWIN
		Bruce's parents gently but firmly discouraged his ambition to become an actor...and he himself refused to follow family tradition and study for architecture because he was "innumerate" an realized he probably could not pass the examinations.
		Bruce always gave the impression that he knew everything and made an effort to convince you that your original ideas were thought of by him long before; except, once in a while, he would get excited when you told him something he did not know and really wanted to learn about.
		Bruce Chatwin was a paradox of isms, a complex, complicated genius of contradictions.
	www.prospector-utah.com /chatwin.htm (4658 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		Chatwin's first feat is to become the protagonist in all his books even when he is not a character.
		In his Granta interview with Chatwin, Michael Ignatieff refers to Chatwin's prose as 'lapidarian.' Lapidarian means 'relating to the cutting, polishing, and engraving of gems 'marked by conciseness, precision, or refinement of expression.' To say Chatwin's style in Viceroy is lapidarian is not to be lapidarian enough.
		Chatwin always possessed this eye, and it was the basis of his career at Sotheby's.
	www.corpse.org /issue_9/critiques/verlenden.htm (5536 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bruce Chatwin: Books: Nicholas Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bruce Chatwin was the golden child of the contemporary English novel; by the time he died of an AIDS-related illness aged 49 in January 1989 he had produced the startlingly original masterpieces that made his name.
		Chatwin was a compulsive fantasist in his own life, unable to stop himself from using his considerable knowledge as a launchpad for his own inventions.
		Bruce Chatwin is exposed with all his faults - and there are more of those than most would wish for themselves - yet at the same time, I shed a tear or two reading about his death.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bruce-Chatwin-Nicholas-Shakespeare/dp/0099289970 (1581 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		Bruce Chatwin, travel writer, journalist, art critic and novelist, was a man of many contradictions.
		He has benefited from access to Bruce's widow, Elizabeth, and the boxes of famous notebooks that were deposited in the Bodleian Library on the death of their owner, and which are not to be read by the public until 2010.
		For anyone who has enjoyed Chatwin's books, or anyone who wonders why such a slim output is so highly praised, this biography will come as a welcome opportunity to enter the world of Bruce Chatwin which, for all its contradictions and denials, is still a fascinating place through which to travel.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /show_article.php?aid=161 (761 words)

	Nicholas Shakespeare (Bold Type Magazine)
		Chatwin was not always a very likeable fellow and Shakespeare doesn't wince but this life was a magnificent creation and Shakespeare has written it masterfully.
		Chatwin was born to a middle class family in Birmingham.
		Chatwin died at 48 from what he claimed to be a rare bone marrow disease picked up in China.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0200/shakespeare (620 words)

	Author Bruce Chatwin - travelogues of Bruce Chatwin
		On the basis of his own travels to Australia (on one of his trips he was accompanied by Salman Rushdie), Chatwin created a closely autobiographic, globetrotting narrative persona, “Bruce”, who experiences first-hand the catastrophic consequences of western expansionism and exploitation of the nomadic.
		Chatwin’s text is more than simply another travelogue with a number of anthropological and ecological frills designed to present a healthy and peaceful utopia of “noble savages” as a viable alternative to western destruction.
		Stylistically and structurally, Chatwin’s intention is to challenge traditional demarcations between scientific/ethnographic and creative/fictional discourse.
	www.paradisemoon.com /read/Dreamtime_B_Chatwin.htm (3298 words)

	Bruce Chatwin's Word-painting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The bleak harsh landscape that Chatwin describes symbolizes the lack of connection between the land and the people, and such barren land is appropriate for Chatwin's characters who have all lost touch with their roots.
		Chatwin uses word-painting that appeals to all of the senses, especially smell, and he connects the still environment with the activity of animals and insects, but he always uses the past tense.
		As a result, although Chatwin's narration is similar to that of Lawrence and Raban because it effectively reproduces the image of the barren scenery, Lawrence and Raban paint a scene to immerse the reader in the atmosphere, whereas Chatwin paints the view for the reader from a distance.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /post/uk/chatwin/wordpainting.html (532 words)

	Bruce Chatwin
		Bruce Chatwin was the golden child of contemporary English letters.
		The passages describing Chatwin's miserable death are both harrowing and deeply moving, but Shakespeare is no less adept at conveying, say, his subject's disappointment at failing to win the Booker Prize for Utz.
		This is the last of Bruce Chatwin's works to be published while he was still alive (he penned the introduction in 1988, a few months before he died).
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/chatwin_bruce.htm (801 words)

	D2 Press- Cool Dead People -
		Writer Salmon Rushdie, a friend of Chatwin's, said that although he highly admired Chatwin's work, Chatwin withheld much of himself in his writing; "The whole person he was when you met him." He attributed this to a life of secrets.
		Chatwin himself said, "The word 'story' is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work." An eye for narrative and an eye for drama are what make for great story telling.
		Chatwin was a detailed writer, he could impress crowds of people with his effervescent personality when talking about his delicious travels, and he loved beautiful people, art, literature, and his wife.
	www.doubledarepress.com /2002/09/columns/dead-people.shtml (1399 words)

	Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
		Among the mass of papers that Chatwin bequeathed to the Bodelian Library just before he died from AIDS in 1989, was a four inch porcelain Toby jug figure, wearing a Homburg hat and green coat and carrying a Gladstone bag.
		Chatwin was no respecter of intellectual authority and those who contradicted his notions suffered the fate of caricature in his books.
		But Chatwin's success as a writer was not based upon his tendentious theories, but the medium in which he chose to present them.
	www.reddotbooks.co.uk /bruce-chatwin-nicholas-shakespeare-p-103.html (732 words)

	Bruce Chatwin Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA.
		Chatwin's novel is a portrait not only of a driven man but of the Cold War world in Eastern Europe,...
		Chatwin's novel tells the story of Francisco Manoel de Silva, an adventurer and slave trader who travels from Brazil to West Africa to make his fortune.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Chatwin,Bruce (562 words)

	Book Review by Ann Skea
		She arrived home to see that Bruce Chatwin was signing books nearby and, on meeting him, she accused the real Chatwin of not being himself.
		But Chatwin, as the person described here, does not much appeal to me: too talkative ("He was known to one circle of acquaintances as 'Chatterbox' and to another as 'Chatty Corner'"); too exhibitionist; too precious in his delight for 'outfits' (swirling capes, natty shorts, and a custom-made, calfskin haversack).
		Bruce Chatwin died in the South of France in January, 1989.
	www.eclectica.org /v1n7/skea3.html (993 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - An Introduction to the Life and Books of Bruce Chatwin
		Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield, England, in 1940.
		Next Chatwin chose to write a book contrary to what was expected of him as a chronicler of travels and exotic places: a story of two brothers who rarely leave the farm where they were born.
		Chatwin embodied wanderlust both in his life and in the books he chose to write.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1051633 (1213 words)

	Bruce Chatwin
		Chatwin vio un cuadro de Gray cuando fue a su piso para escribir un artículo sobre ella: un mapa de la Patagonia.
		Chatwin, sin duda, metió en su mochila una lata de sardinas y media botella de champán, y dijo que el libro sería un intento de dar una visión cubista de la región.
		Chatwin fue famoso tanto por la intensidad de su presencia como por sus ausencias.
	maruska.soria.org /chatwin.htm (1586 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Chatwin based The Songlines (1987) on a journey he took with Salman Rushdie into the Australian outback after the two authors had met at a literary festival in Adelaide.
		To the locals, Chatwin was a "pom." A corruption of pomegranate--this bit of Australian slang was applied to British visitors with "exotic" upper-class accents and manners.
		The work that Chatwin produced from his trip to Australia may have captured the essence of the Aboriginal songlines, but it failed to capture the hearts of Australians who saw themselves depicted as living in a country that was "weirder than America" and possibly more racist.
	english.cla.umn.edu /travelconf/abstracts/Schramer.html (445 words)

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