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A provocative visit to the past in the Outback

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880703
Author:Alida Becker

From the early days of his childhood, when a great-aunt informed him that the Anglo-Saxon version of his surname meant "the winding path," Bruce Chatwin has been a connoisseur of the wandering life. His god, as he once told a missionary, is "the God of Walkers"; like the novelist W. H. Hudson, he believes the "primaeval calmness" of nomadic, so-called primitive people is "perhaps the same as the Peace of God." He also suspects, despite the achievements of thousands of years of civilization, that the impulse to roam may be responsible for the nobler qualities in what we vaguely define as ...

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