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Book Description
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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- English Books
- Paperback 384 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0140115773
- ISBN-13: 9780140115772
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Pub date: Aug 01, 1990
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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Chatwin and the Hippopotamus
It is hard to read this book dispassionately. Its gathering of stories, portraits, travelogues and fragments embodies such a rush and depth of enthusiasm – the stuff of many lives lived in a single too-short one – that the reader grows haunted by reg ... (read full critics)