The songlines

The songlines

1987 • 308 pages

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Average rating3.9

15

Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches us how Aboriginal Australians perceive their landscapes, and negotiate with each other in that vast, nomadic environment.

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I read this pretty quick. I mean I liked reading about the spiritualism of nomadic people, but I do think his writing style could have been better. I don't know how but it wasn't gripping enough for me in its form.

February 1, 2013