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A Letter from Marble Bar (The Songlines)

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
  • Aboriginal Australians
  • Australian aborigine
  • Description and travel
  • Journeys
  • Social life and customs
  • Travel
  • anthropology
  • ethnography

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.