What Am I Doing Here
by Chatwin, Bruce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Nice copy
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Cape, 1989. 1st edition / 1st printing. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket vii + 367pp., Thirty-five pieces: stories, profiles, travels, personalities, selected by the author. Inc. Nadezhda Mandelstam, Konstantin Melnikov & Ernst Junger. Pale tape-marks to end papers o/w a nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket
Synopsis
In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138238
- Title
- What Am I Doing Here
- Author
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice copy
- Edition
- 1st edition / 1st printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- octavo
- Keywords
- Nadezhda Mandelstam Konstantin Melnikov Ernst Junger
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