The Viceroy of Ouidah
The Viceroy of Ouidah

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1988-06-07

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1101503211

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Bruce Chatwin’s debut novel: “Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seen through a microscope” (The Atlantic) In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.

Utz
Utz

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1989-12-01

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1101522836

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An elegant novel set in Prague about the possibility of freedom in an unfree state, from the acclaimed author of The Songlines and In Patagonia Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat. Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although he has considered defection, he always returns. He cannot take his precious collection with him, but he cannot leave it, either. And so Utz is as much owned by his porcelain as it is owned by him, as much of a prisoner of the collection as of the Communist state. A fascinating, enigmatic man, Kaspar Utz is one of Bruce Chatwin's finest creations. And his story, as delicately cast as one of Utz's porcelain figures, is unforgettable.

Under the Sun
Under the Sun

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 1101475684

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"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography." -William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London) The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment was made wholly evident by his writing. This marvelous selection of letters-to his wife, to his parents, and to friends, including Patrick Leigh Fermor, James Ivory, and Paul Theroux- reveals a passionate man and a storyteller par excellence. Written with the verve and sharpness of expression that first marked him as an author of singular talent, Chatwin's letters provide a window into his remarkable life and strikingly detailed insights regarding his literary ambitions and tastes.

What Am I Doing Here
What Am I Doing Here

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1990-08-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1101503203

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In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.

Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition
Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition

Author: Stanley B. Alpern

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0814707726

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The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta,' residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Updated with a new preface by the author, Amazons of Black Sparta is the product of meticulous archival research and Alpern's gift for narrative. It will stand as the most comprehensive and accessible account of the woman warriors of Dahomey.

Anatomy of Restlessness
Anatomy of Restlessness

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997-08-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 110150319X

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Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span a world of topics—from art and antiques to archaeology and architecture. This spirited collection of previously neglected or unpublished essays, articles, short stories, travel sketches, and criticism represents every aspect and period of Chatwin’s career as it reveals an abiding theme in his work: his fascination with, and hunger for, the peripatetic existence. While Chatwin’s poignant search for a suitable place to “hang his hat,” his compelling arguments for the nomadic “alternative,” his revealing fictional accounts of exile and the exotic, and his wickedly en pointe social history of Capri prove him to be an excellent observer of social and cultural mores, Chatwin’s own restlessness, his yearning to be on the move, glimmers beneath every surface of this dazzling body of work.

On the Black Hill
On the Black Hill

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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A tale of two brothers (identical twins) who stay in the farmhouse on the English-Welsh border where they were born, tilling the rough soil and sleeping in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advance of the 20th century.

On the Black Hill
On the Black Hill

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher: Picador

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780330281249

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The tale of identical twin brothers who toil on the family farm in the wild and vibrant land of Wales and experience the oddities, wonders, and tragedies of human experience.

Winding Paths
Winding Paths

Author: Bruce Chatwin

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Throughout his travels, Bruce Chatwin took thousands of photographs. They demonstrate his legendary `eye' at its best, showing an extraordinary sense of colour and surface, an ability to find beauty in the most mundane of objects or prosaic of places. This new collection of his photographs, much larger than PHOTOGRAPHS AND NOTEBOOKS, is edited and introduced by Roberto Calasso.