# With Chatwin

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- Authors: [Susannah Clapp](https://www.bookquiver.com/susannah-clapp)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1998-01-01

## Description

Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print. Chatwin was a traveller, an aesthete and an anthropologist. In his twenties he was a star at Sotheby's; in his thirties he was a star at The Sunday Times . A solitary man and a socialite; he was always exotic. He became famous as the person who reinvented travel-writing and when he died in 1989, aged 48, he had published six strikingly varied books. Susannah Clapp's book is not a biography, but collects her own memories of Chatwin and those of his friends, acquaintances and colleagues, with the aim of producing a chronology of the author's life and, more important, of illuminating particular fields of interest. This is not merely a celebratory volume, but a investigatory one, illustrated with photographs of and by Bruce Chatwin.

## Editions

### With Chatwin

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9973-371-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1998-01-01
- Language: en_GB