An edition of The Songlines (1987)

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An edition of The Songlines (1987)

Songlines

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Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches us how Aboriginal Australians perceive their landscapes, and negotiate with each other in that vast, nomadic environment.

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Random House UK
Pages
304

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Subjects
Aboriginal Australians, Australian aborigine, Description and travel, Journeys, Social life and customs, Travel, anthropology, ethnography, nomadism, nomads, outback, stories, tales, Chatwin, bruce, 1940-1989, Australia, description and travel, Australia, social life and customs, Aboriginal australians
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Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)
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Australia

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Cover of: Songlines
Songlines
May 5, 2005, Random House UK
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Cover of: Songlines (Picador Books)
Songlines (Picador Books)
June 10, 1988, Pan Books Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Cover of: The songlines
The songlines
1988, Penguin Books
in English
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Cover of: The songlines
The songlines
1987, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.
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First Sentence

"IN ALICE SPRINGS - a grid of scorching streets where men in long white socks were forever getting in and out of Land Cruisers - I met a Russian who was mapping the scared sites of the Aboriginals."

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Library of Congress
PR6053.H395

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OL7319958M
Internet Archive
songlines0000bruc_d9l8
ISBN 10
0099769913
ISBN 13
9780099769910
Library Thing
23127
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79907

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