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Article: CHATWIN'S WINDING PATH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 20, 1989
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Bruce Chatwin, who died Tuesday at age 48 of a rare bone-marrow
disease, was the foremost literary traveler of a generation rich in
literary travelers. Along with such writers as James Fenton,
Jonathan Raban and Paul Theroux, he helped revitalize a
long-dormant genre. In such books as "In Patagonia" and "The
Songlines" he refined his exotic wanderings into some of the finest
writing of our time.
He was obsessed, as he wrote in "The Songlines," by "what
is,for me, the question of questions: the nature of human
restlessness."
The restlessness was as much intellectual as geographic.
Almost nothing under the sun was alien to him, as the variousness
of the five books he published in his ...