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Indlæser... Drømmespor (1987)af Bruce Chatwin
  
 kcshankd | Jan 31, 2021 |  This really is a book to get lost in, and it has had an immense influence overseas in popularising Aboriginal Australian culture. (Rory Stewart, for instance, recalls this book as the one that made English travel writing "cool".) A rambling yarn, tangents upon tangents, unpleasant viewpoints and hopeful ideas mingling together like dyes being poured into a vat. The situation is more complex now - some would say problematic but I'd argue that's going too far. Chatwin's time in Australia was fairly brief, his subjects sometimes ironic or perhaps even outright false (to be fair, he acknowledges this), and his attempt to understand an issue that Australians themselves were still grappling with in the 1980s was always going to be deeply flawed. Still, it has its place in the history, and its rather basic overview of one particular aspect of Aboriginal life - even if it is drawn without any shadow or nuance - is an intriguing viewpoint on Australia from an outsider. (  ) therebelprince | Nov 15, 2020 | My reviews can be found on LibraryThing here: 2011 http://www.librarything.com/topic/120136#2903945 2012 re-read http://www.librarything.com/topic/128182#3338899 dchaikin | Sep 26, 2020 | My reviews can be found on LibraryThing here: 2011 http://www.librarything.com/topic/120136#2903945 2012 re-read http://www.librarything.com/topic/128182#3338899 dchaikin | Sep 26, 2020 | An interesting tale of a man going to Australia to lean about the song-lines of the Aboriginal people. The story of the song-lines was good, but I did not care about his notebook from other travels. Seemed to me to be filler that was unnecessary to the story. (  ) foof2you | Jul 10, 2020 |
It engages the full range of the author's passions: his obsession with travel; his love of nomads and the nomadic way of life; his horror at the vulgarity and exploitativeness of the modern world; his hunger to understand man's origins and essential nature and so find some source of hope for the future. Part adventure-story, part novel-of-ideas, part satire on the follies of ''progress,'' part spiritual autobiography, part passionate plea for a return to simplicity of being and behavior, ''The Songlines'' is a seething gallimaufry of a book, a great Burtonian galimatias of anecdote and speculation and description, fascinating, moving, infuriating, incoherent, all at once Belongs to Publisher SeriesFischer Taschenbuch (10364)
En engelsk arkŏlogs beretning om en rejse i det centrale Australien, hvor han kom tt̆ p ̄den indfd̜te befolkning, som berettede om deres myter og sagn og om de hvides overgreb. No library descriptions found. |
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Songlines, From the Notebooks
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Once again Chatwin retells the stories of others for the meat of the book, but this time adds more of his own experience in getting that done.
I found the commonplace book inserts very odd, I wish he would have instead told us about another week in the bush, which was much more rewarding for this reader. (