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Description

Evocative descriptions, notes on the history of the region, and remarkable anecdotes from a remote and starkly beautiful part of the world. "A travel book to stand on the shelf with Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham, and Paul Theroux." -- The New York Times Book Review

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First Sentence

IN MY grandmother's dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet a piece of skin.

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  1. Bruce Chatwin (Author)
 

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