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  • What Am I Doing Here?

  • By: Bruce Chatwin
  • Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
  • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Brought to you by Penguin.

The audio edition of What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin.

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'
©2019 Bruce Chatwin (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Authors Cultural & Regional Travel Writing & Commentary Nepal Imperialism
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As a writer he was unclassifiably interesting: lucid, ironic, cool. He seemed to owe nothing to anybody. (Colin Thubron)
One of its chief delights is that it contains so many of its author'sbest anecdotes, his choicest performances (Salman Rushdie)
I like the combination of its far-reaching quality and the minute precision with which his thoughts are charted (Rose Tremain)

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My favourite author . I am going to listen to it for the third time.So enthralling!

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Bruce Chatwin/Hugh Fraser

I’ve listened to In Patagonia, The Songlines and What am I Doing Here. Bruce Chatwin narrated by Hugh Fraser is such a wonderful combination. I hope you enjoy listening to these stories as much as I have.

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