With Chatwin | With Chatwin

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Author: Susannah Clapp
First Published: 1997
Type of Work: Literary biography
Time of Work: 1940-1989
Setting: Mostly New York and various locations in England
Principal Characters: Bruce Chatwin, Elizabeth Chatwin, Susannah Clapp
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Upper classes, AIDS, Eye, Auctions
Locales: New York, England

With Chatwin is a title meant to allude to that of Bruce Chatwin’s breakthrough book, In Patagonia (1977), and also, as biographer Susannah Clapp states, “to the helping hand that friends of the Victorian explorers used to claim they had provided.” As his biographer chronicles, Chatwin did travel to places that others longed to go. Many of these others in fact went with him, but none of them came away with the original insights Chatwin managed to marshal into some of the most unique travel-oriented prose written this century. Even before his early death in 1989 of...

With Chatwin | With Chatwin

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