In Patagonia English edition - Bruce Chatwin Kartoniert (TB)

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While an interesting read, with good research, and a cast of characters who help move the book along, I was disappointed with the ending which just trailed off. It was as though he became bored with the subject. There was no revelation, no feeling that the journey had taught him anything, and no distillation of this great expanse land. I never even knew what he thought about Patagonia by the end of his journey, or if his journey had changed his perceptions. Nevertheless, for someone who is about to live in BA for three years it was a pleasant primer.

As a young boy Chatwin is fascinated by a piece of skin of a long excint animal in the house of his grandmother. He decides to go searching for something like that in Patagonia. This book consists of about 100 very small chapters in which Chatwin combines the tale of his own adventure with the tales of travellers long before him. It reads like a collection of short stories what might be the reason I like this book less than the travelbooks of Thesiger, Theroux, Thubron or Murphy, to name a few.