Posts with tag ”chatwin”
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Chilling in Chile
Compared to stern Santiago, Valparaiso looks like a drunken cousin who spent a year in art school and now lives in a maze of color-splashed alleys and rusted funiculars.
Review: Marco Polo Didn’t Go There
“Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” by Rolf Potts is a collection of travel stories with a clever little trick up its sleeve. Each chapter comes with extensive endnotes explaining what actually happened behind the scenes.
Review: Anatomy of Restlessness
Bruce Chatwin had a peculiar way of writing. One moment two people are having a perfectly ordinary conversation, but three sentences later he’s contemplating the nature of civilization, human migration and why we apparently made a terrible mistake when we stopped wandering around and started buying furniture.
Why we travel
I’m on a train heading northeast across Sweden. It is a Sunday evening in November, the month when the Scandinavia landscape is locked in a cold blanket of gloom. I lift my eyes and have a look at my fellow passengers, their faces shrouded by quiet resignation.
Moleskines of the world
Everything is going digital. Laptops are getting smaller, phones are getting smarter, and somewhere in Silicon Valley a man in a black turtleneck is presumably plotting the eventual extinction of handwriting.