Bruce Chatwin

Nicholas Shakespeare chronicles the life and career of one of the most charismatic and elusive literary figures of recent times, who was at once a writer, archaeologist, photographer and art collector, and who, despite his reputation as a socialite, was also a loner who explored the limits of extreme solitude. "...one of the most beautifully written, painstakingly researched and cleverly constructed biographies of this decade" "Literary Review".