Traumpfade. Roman. by Bruce Chatwin
A lyrical travel-narrative that follows a restless narrator through the Australian outback in search of Aboriginal “songlines” — the oral maps that stitch landscape, law and memory together — while interweaving personal reflection, encounters with Indigenous elders and meditations on nomadism, art and the human impulse to roam; blending reportage, myth and imaginative reconstruction, the book probes how stories and songs encode place and history and how modern life has severed ordinary contact with these ancient modes of knowing.
- Published
- 1987
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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(5.0)
- Alternate Titles
- - The Songlines
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