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The Songlines (Vintage classics)by: Bruce Chatwin
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The late Bruce Chatwin carved out a literary career as unique as any writer's in this century: his books included In Patagonia, a fabulist travel narrative, The Viceroy of Ouidah, a mock-historical tale of a Brazilian slave-trader in 19th century Africa, and The Songlines, his beautiful, elegiac, comic account of following the invisible pathways traced by the Australian aborigines. Chatwin was nothing if not erudite, and the vast, eclectic body of literature that underlies this tale of trekking across the outback gives it a resonance found in few other recent travel books. A poignancy, as well, since Chatwin's untimely death made The Songlines one of his last books. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A very huma bookThis book by Bruce Chatwin is a rare pleasure, written by a man truly interested in all the peoples of the world including their culture, language, arts and metaphysics. This time Chatwin went to Australia to attempt to understand the very complex system of Aboriginal religious structures called songlines. As far as I can see from this book songlines are the connections in song of one part of the country to another part, each practised by the people who live there with neighbours sharing the "song". ... Read More Rating:  - Outstanding bookSonglines is an outstanding book. No wonder many of my mates had to read it at school. It's taken me 25 years to catch up with them but I'm glad I finally got round to it. It combines some gripping anecdote and tale of adventures with some very erudite philosophical discussion, or rather musings, and opportunity to learn about nomadic cultures and the aboriginal australians Rating: - Beautiful storyThis is an amazing book that gives you a great insight to the lives and history of the Aboriginals Rating: - The human tideThis is a unique and unclassifiable book, part novel, part travel book, part notebook full of quotations and speculations. Chatwin focuses on the notion that language and human thought began in songs that sang the landscape and living things into existence. Aboriginal culture continues this tradition in songlines which are explored as living entities, maps, boundaries, calendars, catalogues, survival systems, myths. Chatwin says the ultimate question he is asking is, why are humans so restless? He argues ... Read More Rating:  - Aboriginals in AustraliaIn Alice Springs the narrator called Bruce meets Arkady Volchok, an Australian citizen who is mapping the sacred sites of the Aboriginals. Arkady is fascinated by them, by their grit and tenacity and their ways of dealing with white people. Arkady speaks a couple of their languages and he is often astounded by their intellectual vigour, their memory and their capacity to survive. It was during his time as a schoolteacher in Walbiri that Arkadi learned of the labyrinth of invisible pathways which meander ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display
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