Bruce Chatwin
by Nicholas Shakespeare
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1860465447
- ISBN 13
- 9781860465444
- Seller
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Brossard, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
Harvill, London, 1999. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. DJ has slight edge wear. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.
He was different things to different people: a director at Sotheby's with an unerring eye for detail; an archaeologist present at the finding of the evidence of man's earliest use of fire; a successful Sunday Times journalist; a photographer; an art collector; a restless traveller and a best selling author. A full blown biography of Chatwin.
He was different things to different people: a director at Sotheby's with an unerring eye for detail; an archaeologist present at the finding of the evidence of man's earliest use of fire; a successful Sunday Times journalist; a photographer; an art collector; a restless traveller and a best selling author. A full blown biography of Chatwin.
Synopsis
Nicholas Shakespeare is the author of The Vision of Elena Silves , winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for The High Flyer , for which he was nominated one of Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists in 1993, and The Dancer Upstairs . Between 1991 and 1998 he journeyed in Chatwin's tracks to research this authorized biography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shop-books.ca (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202000008
- Title
- Bruce Chatwin
- Author
- Nicholas Shakespeare
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860465447
- ISBN 13
- 9781860465444
- Publisher
- The Harvill Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- used books, discount books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; First Editions; Non-Fiction;
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