false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173353346m/276794.jpg 276794 1 <I>Winding Paths</I>, the largest collection of writer Bruce Chatwin's photographs yet published, is a visual feast of an accompaniment to his unclassifiable and unique books--<I>In Patagonia</I>, <I>The Viceroy of Ouidah</I>,<I>On the Black Hill</I><I>The Songlines</I> and <I>Utz</I>. "Life is a journey through a wilderness", wrote Chatwin, and his extraordinary images record his sojourns in his own particular wilderness. Captured with his masterly eye for colour and beauty, we follow him to the markets of Istanbul, where fish heaped upon fish gleam as if with the freshness of a painter's brushstrokes, to the rich ochres and merciless sun of Mali and the aching, unreproduceable blue of the mosques of Iran where his quest takes him "in the footsteps" of the early 20th-century traveller Robert Byron. Then there is the human element: the black-and-white, almost 19th-century quality of his studies of the Welsh community in Patagonia, Argentina, which inspired his first book; the desert people of Mauritania, the camel drivers of the Sudan. Chatwin was "one of those rare and daring souls" writes Roberto Calasso in his introduction to <I>Winding Paths</I> "to open one's eyes and look is the primordial, irreducible prerequisite of knowledge." These photographs certainly pinpoint the clarity of Chatwin's vision and his belief that "to rediscover his humanity (man) must slough off his attachments and take to the road." --<I>Catherine Taylor</I> 268427 14 10 1999 Winding Paths total:2|5:1|4:1| 2 9 3 1 276794 0224060503 9780224060509 2 1 4.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173353346m/276794.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276794.Winding_Paths 4 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 23:48:18 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 22:37:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 276794 0224060503 9780224060509 2 1 4.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173353346m/276794.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276794.Winding_Paths 5 0 false Fri Aug 28 07:41:25 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 07:41:25 -0700 2009 276794 0224060503 9780224060509 2 1 4.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173353346m/276794.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276794.Winding_Paths 0 0 false Wed Apr 02 14:46:34 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 14:46:37 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=276794