The Songlines

Bruce Chatwin First published 1988

About this book

Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches us how Aboriginal Australians perceive their landscapes, and negotiate with each other in that vast, nomadic environment.

Subjects

  • aboriginal australians
  • anthropology
  • australia, description and travel
  • australian aborigine
  • australian aborigines
  • australia, social life and customs
  • chatwin, bruce, 1940-1989
  • ciencia ficción - literatura
  • description and travel
  • descriptionand travel
  • ethnography
  • journeys
  • literatura inglesa
  • new york times reviewed
  • nomadism
  • nomads
  • novela inglesa
  • outback
  • siglo xix
  • social life and customs
  • stories
  • tales
  • travel