In Patagonia

In Patagonia
 Bruce Chatwin (Author), Eduardo Goligorsky (Translator)

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 “Everyone needs the spur of a quest to live; for the traveler, that spur lies in any dream,” said Bruce Chatwin. Here, the excuse for the dream and the journey is a ten-square-centimeter piece of skin given to his grandmother as a wedding gift by a sailor cousin, exiled to the far reaches of the British Empire. Family lore held that the skin belonged to a brontosaurus, although it was red and covered in fur. Bruce Chatwin sets off in search of the
 a clue of similar skin and finds the vestiges of centuries of history and the unusual traces of unlikely characters.

 Exiles and eccentrics of all kinds, vagrants and descendants of vagrants, men and women stranded in time give extraordinary vivacity to this splendid book, to this classic of today.

 256 pages