David Gamson

Chatwin’s journey across Australia inspired me as I charted my own course across that amazing continent — the country where I was born. This book should be seen as a contribution to the genre of travel writing rather than an anthropological study, and Chatwin — a white, British male writing about Australian Aboriginal culture — carries his own perspective with him. Still, part imaginative history, part meditation on the human desire to travel and wander, it remains unparalleled.