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The songlines by Bruce Chatwin, Bruce Chatwin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth century though rare in ours; a story of ideas in which two companions, traveling and talking together, explore the hopes and dreams that animate both them and the people they encounter. Set in almost uninhabitable regions of Central Australia,__The Songlines__asks and tries to answer these questions: Why is man the most restless, dissatisfied of animals? Why do wandering people conceive the world as perfect whereas sedentary ones always try to change it? Why have the great teachers—Christ or the Buddha—recommended the Road as the way. to salvation? Do we agree with Pascal that all man's troubles stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room?We do not often ask these questions today for we commonly assume that living in a house is normal and that the wandering life is aberrant. But for more than twenty years Chatwin has mulled over the possibility that the reverse might be the case.Pre-colonial Australia was the last landmass on earth peopled not by herdsmen, farmers, or city dwellers, but by hunter-gatherers. Their labyrinths of invisible pathways across the continent are known to u

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Author

Bruce Chatwin, Bruce Chatwin

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140094299

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Travel

Rating

3.98 / 5 (6,429 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14