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This classic of the travel genre is a collection of short sketches of the Welsh shepherds and North American outlaws and Russian housewives and German farmers and Indian captives and the many others the author met on his travels through Patagonia. Alongside these sketches are legends of bandits and tales of shipwrecks and hearsay of mythical creatures and more. According to the introduction, Chatwin did not want this categorized among travel books, but regarded it as a reflection on human restle
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In this unusual piece of travel writing, Bruce Chatwin visits the remote area of Patagonia. The spur for his journey was a piece of dinosaur skin remembered from his childhood - he goes in search of the mythical beast and to find evidence of the relative who sent the skin home. He intersperses descriptions of the places he visits with anecdotes about the people he meets and about historical figures (such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) who had also found their way to this remote part of t
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