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The Songlines
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Author
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Bruce Chatwin.
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Publisher
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Penguin
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paperback
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ISBN
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9780142422571
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Pages/Publication Date
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294/2012
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Daedalus Item Code
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29425
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Description
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Set in the desolate lands of the Outback, this intriguing book combines fiction and nonfiction, travelogue and spirit journey, as Bruce Chatwin searches for the source and meaning of the dreaming tracks or songlines of the Aboriginal Australians: the pathways by which their ancient ancestors first "sang" the world into existence. When it was published in 1987, the New York Times Book Review declared it "Chatwin's bravest work yet, the one in which we come closest to penetrating his mind and heart.... No one will put it down unmoved."—NYTBR "A blend of travelogue, memoir, history, philosophy, science, meditation, and commonplace book ... Chatwin's astonishing style captures the metamorphoses of his own 'Walkabout'.... He takes the travel genre beyond exoticism and the simple picturesque into the metaphysical."—Boston Globe
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