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Award-winning novelist Nicholas Shakespeare has written the definitive biography of one of the most influential literary figures of our time: Bruce Chatwin, whose works’ strangely compelling combination of research, first-hand experience, myth, and mystification may have been the real... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Bruce Chatwin: Add a description of this character.
- Elizabeth
- Gertrude
- Wilson
- Charles Chatwin
- Hugh
- Arnold
- Hewett
- Donald
- Francis Wyndham
- Milward
- Rushdie
- Piggott
- Bmce
- Robert Erskine
- Maschler
- Margharita
- Utz
- Lucie-smith
- Peter Levi
- Kasmin
- Welch
- Ortiz
- Robert Byron
- Bobby
- Betjeman
- Norman
- Ivry
- Rimbaud
- Acheson
- Sam
- Miranda
- Christie
- Rogers
- George
- Mapplethorpe
- Maurizio
- Mrs Gandhi
- Isobel
- Adam
- Diana Melly
- Colin Thubron
Setting & Locations edit
- Patagonia
- London
- New York
- England
- Paris
- Central Australia
- Birmingham
- Edinburgh
- Afghanistan
- Ouidah
- Prague
- France
- West Africa
- America
- India
- Marlborough
- Benin
- Black Hill
- Strehlow
- Wales
- Kabul
- Holwell
- Brazil
- Sydney
- Dahomey
- Sethi
- Greece
- Bahia
- Sawenko
- Oxford
- Souza
- Russia
- Teheran
- Racine
- Adelaide
- Italy
- Stratford
- Sheffield
- Niger
- Cairo
- Europe
- Rome
- China
- Cambridge
- Beast
- Delhi
- Washington
- Old Hall
First Sentence edit
ON FEBRUARY 1984, an Englishman with a rucksack and walking-boots strides into a bungalow in the Irene district of Pretoria.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nicholas Shakespeare (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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