by Bruce Chatwin · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845917509
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«In Patagonia» is Bruce Chatwin's travel book, published by Adelphi in paperback (264 pages, in Italian).
After evoking Patagonia as a refuge imagined by young Englishmen in the postwar period, Bruce Chatwin undertakes a real journey to the southern region guided by two obsessions: finding remains of a prehistoric monster and following the trail of a seafaring relative. The narrative interweaves history, landscape and characters, turning the territory into a personal geography that the reader feels as their own.
Work originally published in 1977, winner of the Hawthornden Prize. This Italian edition belongs to the Gli Adelphi collection and includes a translation by Marina Marchesi.
For readers of travel literature, history and exploration narratives seeking a classic work of the genre.
Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".
