THE SONGLINES
Livres anciens et modernes
Chatwin
Jonathan Cape,
1987
THE SONGLINES
Livres anciens et modernes
Chatwin
Jonathan Cape,
1987
214,50 €
(Newburyport,
États-Unis d'Amérique)
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Détails
- Année
- 1987
- Lieu d'édition
- London
- Auteur
- Chatwin
- Éditeurs
- Jonathan Cape
- Edition
- First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered
- Langues
- Anglais
- Premiére Edition
- True
Description
First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and in the illustrated dustjacket. 293 pp. A fine copy.
Edizione: chatwin's novel of ideas set in aboriginal camps of central australia. 'songlines' are what europeans call the labyrinth of invisible pathways that meander all over australia. to the aboriginals, they are the 'footprints of the ancestors'. these trails are both intricate sources of personal identity and territorial markers. bruce chatwin traces the aboriginal culture through them.
