Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Published by Viking, NY, 2011
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Pages and fore-edges are tanned; light wear to tips of side edges and spine, o/w VG+ ; 554 pages.
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- Title
- Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Publisher
- Viking, NY
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670022462
- ISBN 13
- 9780670022465
- Edition
- First US Edition; First Printing.
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About the Author
Bruce Chatwin (19401989) was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. His other books are What Am I Doing Here and Anatomy of Restlessness, posthumous anthologies of shorter works, and Far Journeys, a collection of his photographs that also includes selections from his travel notebooks.
Bruce Chatwin was born in 1940 and was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. The last three he considered works of fiction. His other books include the essay collections What Am I Doing Here and The Anatomy of Restlessness. Chatwin died in Nice, France, on January 18, 1989.
Elizabeth Chatwin was born in America and went to London in 1961 to work at Sotheby's, where she met Bruce Chatwin. They were married in 1965. She lives on a farm near Oxford, where she raises Black Welsh mountain sheep.
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in Worcester in 1957. He is the author of The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask awards; The High Flyer, The Dancer Upstairs, and, most recently, Inheritance. His nonfiction includes In Tasmania and an acclaimed biography of Bruce Chatwin.
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