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In Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin
Ninety-seven short sections on a journey to the end of South America, chasing a piece of mylodon skin and the stories of exiles. The modern travel classic.
Read it if…
you want travel writing as fragment and myth.
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Skip it if…
you want strict fact; Chatwin invented.
Try instead: The Songlines →
Three things you will actually use
- Follow the odd object.
- Fragments make a journey.
- Stories are the landscape.
Do this first
Read the first twenty sections.
Our verdict
Chatwin's Patagonia.
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