Bruce Chatwin

“… Chatwin burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia, which changed for a generation the definition of travel writing and brought a fresh lustre to modern English letters. … But how much do readers who feel they have travelled with him to South America, Africa, Wales, Australiaand Europe actually know the real Bruce Chatwin? …

In 1991, Nicholas Shakespeare was given unrestricted access to Chatwin’s private notebooks, diaries and letters. Across five continents he has gathered evidence from Chatwin’s peers, his friends, his family, his hosts, his enemies and his lovers. Looking for the Chatwin behind the masks, he has written the defintive biography of one of the most charismatic and elusive literary figures of our time.”