by Bruce Chatwin · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224026345
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«What Am I Doing Here?» is a selection of stories, profiles and travel chronicles by Bruce Chatwin, in hardcover (367 pages, in English).
Bruce Chatwin's book brings together stories, profiles and travel chronicles of a personal tone. Chatwin searches for the yeti in Nepal, follows in the footsteps of his mentor Robert Byron in Afghanistan and recalls his years as a young employee at Sotheby's, among other tales of eccentric characters and remote corners.
This is the first hardcover edition, published in 1989, and includes bibliographic references on page 367.
For readers of travel literature and biographical profiles; also fits with narrative non-fiction and the portrayal of real characters.
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".
