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unusual facts about Bruce Chatwin


Hwyl Nofio

The project provided tangible evidence of this landscape in an accompanying book that inculcate the listener into a world of chilling folk myths and the resonances of family histories, as well as timely references to the legacies of surrealist filmmaker and poet Jane Arden (director) and the novelist Bruce Chatwin.


Francisco Félix de Sousa

The protagonist of Bruce Chatwin's book The Viceroy of Ouidah, a white Brazilian slave trader, is said to be based upon Francisco Félix de Sousa.

Globe Corner Bookstore

The Globe Corner Bookstore's Adventure Travel Lecture Series had hosted Jan Morris, Bradford Washburn, William Dalrymple, Bruce Chatwin, Eric Newby, Paul Theroux, Roger Tory Peterson, Rory Stewart, and David Allen Sibley, in addition to other well-known authors and travel writers.

Tom Maschler

In his role as head of Jonathan Cape, he discovered and published many writers including Gabriel García Márquez, Ian McEwan and Bruce Chatwin, to whom he acted as an informal patron.


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