An edition of The Songlines (1987)

The Songlines

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An edition of The Songlines (1987)

The Songlines

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Follow Chatwin on his journey into the 'Red Centre' of Australia. Part autobiography, part story, part history, part anthropology. Teaches us how Aboriginal Australians perceive their landscapes, and negotiate with each other in that vast, nomadic environment.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
295

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Aboriginal Australians Australian aborigine Description and travel Journeys Social life and customs Travel anthropology ethnography nomadism nomads outback stories tales Chatwin, bruce, 1940-1989 Australia, description and travel Australia, social life and customs Descriptionand travel Australian aborigines New York Times reviewed Literatura inglesa Novela inglesa Siglo XIX Ciencia ficción - Literatura

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Cover of: Los trazos de la canción
Los trazos de la canción
2015, Grupo Editorial 62, S.L.U.
in Spanish
Cover of: Songlines
Songlines
May 5, 2005, Random House UK
Cover of: Le Chant des pistes
Le Chant des pistes
January 1, 1990, LGF
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Traumpfade
1990, Carl Hanser Verlag
Hardcover in German
Cover of: Songlines (Picador Books)
Songlines (Picador Books)
June 10, 1988, Pan Books Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Songlines
The Songlines
1988, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Songlines
The Songlines
1988, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: The songlines
The songlines
1987, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.

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New York, N.Y., U.S.A

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Dewey Decimal Class
919.4/0463
Library of Congress
DU105.2 .C43 1988

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295 p. ;
Number of pages
295

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2399196M
Internet Archive
songlines000chat
ISBN 10
0140094296
LCCN
87029204
LibraryThing
23127
Goodreads
76844

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Work ID
OL612496W

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