cover image The Songlines

The Songlines

Bruce Chatwin. Penguin Books, $16 (294pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009429-9

PW praised Chatwin's ""entertaining'' and ``resonant'' reflections on the distinctions between settled people and wanderers, and between human aggression and pacifism, as he searches central Australia for the pathways along which aborigines travel to perform their cultural activities. (June)