Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield, England in 1942. After attending Marlborough School, he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, by then one of Sotheby's youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. From 1972 to 1975 he worked for the Sunday Times, then announced his next departure in a telegram: "Gone to Patagonia for six months." This trip inspired the first of his books, In Patagonia, which launched his writing career. Two of his books have been made into feature films: The Viceroy of Ouidah and On the Black Hill. The Globe Corner Bookstores had the pleasure of his company in the fall of 1987, as The Songlines was becoming a national bestseller. Bruce Chatwin died in January 1989. "I quit my job in the 'art world' and went back to the dry places: alone, travelling light. The names of the tribes I travelled among are unimportant: Rguibat, Quashagai, Taimanni, Turkomen, Bororo, Tuareg - people whose journeys, unlike my own, had neither beginning nor end." - The Songlines

• Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989
• In Patagonia
• The Songlines
• Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
• Utz
• What Am I Doing Here