Bruce Chatwin Gregor von Rezzori

Continuing the search for the Greatest Welsh Novel, Gary Raymond argues for the classic On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin. The story of the Jones boys is the moment of beautiful subtlety and poignancy from a writer who always liked to go big and bold, who was a showman, a bon vivant. When Chatwin

Herzog’s stirring documentary is a tribute to the writer with whom he shared the same love for looking at and walking through the world.

patrick leigh fermor~“Scattered with poppies, the golden-green waves of the cornfields faded. The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below the horizon, and simultaneously to lift an orange moon at the other. Only two days off the full, it rose behind a wood, swiftly losing its flush as it floated up, until the wheat loomed out of the twilight like a metallic and prickly sea.”

Bruce Chatwin in Afghanistan in 1969

Searing Letters From the Pioneering Journalist, Nomad and author of In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin. One of my favourite English writers. A restless wanderer himself, he formulated a whole theory about the antagonism of the settled farmers versus the wandering shepherds, starting with Caine and Abel. Guess which one is more prone to develop aggression and hostility according to his theory?

Bruce Chatwin, Under the Sun

Bruce Chatwin, a former specialist at Sotheby’s, is the subject of a new film by Werner Herzog exploring their collaboration and friendship.

From Bruce Chatwin's 'The Songlines'