W Patagonii - Bruce Chatwin, Robert Ginalski • BookLikes (ISBN:9788324703906)

W Patagonii

by: Robert Ginalski (author) Bruce Chatwin (author)

Słynna książka podróżnicza, debiut wielkiego pisarza. Połączenie powieści przygodowej, historycznej i eseistyki, niezwykły melanż faktów i fikcji, oryginalny styl, niebanalne refleksje. Patagonię, krainę z marzeń dzieciństwa autor przemierza pociągiem, autostopem, konno i pieszo. Poznaje jej... show more

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ISBN: 9788324703906

Publish date: 2007

Publisher: Świat Książki

Pages no: 334

Edition language: Polski

Category:

Adventure, Classics, Non Fiction, Travel, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, History, Literature, Travelogue

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So.... Nicky? rated it

10 years ago

http://nickyp.booklikes.com So.... Nicky? 4.0 In Patagonia

text In Patagonia

More tone poem than travelogue, this reads like a series of evenings at an especially erudite, obsessive uncle's house. An uncle who falls asleep rather quickly after dinner, so keeps his stories short.

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riley rated it

11 years ago

http://riley.booklikes.com riley 4.0

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Part travelog, part oral history, part amateur archaeological text, part memoir. Totally unique and a far cry from Theroux's more traditional travel writing. Theroux takes the train, Chatwin hitchhikes - and perhaps that is why their experiences are so different. Chatwin is also much more concerned ...

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AC rated it

12 years ago

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This is not a travelogue, in any normal sense. It is rather a collection of 97 very short vignettes (almost like 'palm-in-the-hand' stories), many (as is now generally admitted) partially fictionalized, based on Chatwin's wanderings and readings and musings and imaginings about Patagonia, aka 'the e...

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Bettie's Books rated it

15 years ago

http://bettie.booklikes.com Bettie's Books 3.0

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I bought this because I want to learn more about the Welsh inhabitants of this bleak landscape. In my grandmother's dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet a piece of skin.

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