Издания и произведения

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that "Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot".

What Am I Doing Here is a collection of journalism and new pieces assembled on Chatwin's deathbed. Reviews, articles, memories. It is hard to find a weak piece or bad sentence. The worst you can say about his carved, icy prose is that it occasionally crosses into archness or effect for its own sake. But you don't have to say that often. Chatwin's review of Ernst Jünger's wartime diaries (see here for my look at 'The Devil's Captain: Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944') is still the best English language introduction to this controversial German writer. Chatwin, firmly on the left, liked the work rather than the man or his politics.…