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ISBN 9780241129661 (0-241-12966-4, 0241129664)

ISBN 0241129664 (0-241-12966-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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A collection of photographs capturing the rich traditions and everyday life of the Berbers. Within the borders of Morocco, and unknown to many of the thousands of tourists who visit the country each year, live the Berbers, whose way of life has hardly changed for centuries. For two years Alan Keohane lived among them. He travelled with nomads, stayed in villages, participated in family life and joined in local celebrations and festivals. [via]

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ISBN 9780385498302 (0-385-49830-6, 0385498306)

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Bruce Chatwin

by Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 0385498306 (0-385-49830-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Bruce Chatwin was the golden child of the contemporary English novel; by the time he died of an AIDS-related illness aged 49 in January 1989 he had produced the startlingly original masterpieces that made his name. Chatwin came late to being a published writer; In Patagonia, his instant classic of what can loosely be termed "travel literature", came out in 1977. In the preceding years this precocious, intense figure had been an art specialist at Sotheby's, a journalist with The Sunday Times, an archaeologist and a restless, questing traveller. By the time his novel of studying the Aboriginal dreamtime in Australia, The Songlines, was published, he had gained a worldwide audience.

An obsessive art collector, Chatwin also acquired people as he did fabulous objects. He took both male and female lovers while continuing to remain married to his wife Elizabeth, seemingly the most enduring relationship of his life. It is her cooperation and tenacity which enabled this biography to come about, as well as Nicholas Shakespeare's exhaustive research (the book was eight years in the making). It is the international span of Chatwin's experiences that makes the reader appreciate his desire to know all cultures and disciplines. There is some excellent, evocative writing here, particularly in Shakespeare's account of Chatwin's last weeks, his disappointment at not winning the Booker Prize for Utz and the detailed passage describing Chatwin's awful, miserable death surrounded by friends and family. There are a plethora of adjectives used to describe Chatwin such as "elusive", "mercurial", and "charismatic". Yet what Nicholas Shakespeare brings across in this immense, excellent life of Chatwin is the complete aloneness of the man. He was a flamboyant fabulist, an unparalleled conversationalist, yet, as the Australian poet Les Murray is quoted as saying: "He was lonely and he wanted to be. He had those blue, implacable eyes that said: 'I will reject you, I will forget you, because neither you nor any other human being can give me what I want.'"--Catherine Taylor [via]

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The Dancer Upstairs

by Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 0330350552 (0-330-35055-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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The Peruvian guerilla leader Ezequiel is responsible for tens of thousands of fiendishly cruel murders, yet he consistently eludes capture. But in Agustn Rejas he has an indefatigable pursuer. From secluded city streets to the paths of a mountain village the policeman persists, tracking and anticipating Ezequiel's every move. Rejas' only reprieve is his love for his daughter's beautiful dance teacher--until he begins to pick up unmistakable signals that her circles--and Ezequiel's--intersect.
Based on the extraordinary manhunt for the leader of Peru's notorious guerilla organization, The Shining Path, The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John LeCarr--tense, intricate, and heartbreaking. [via]

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High Flyer

by Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 0002713632 (0-00-271363-2)
Softcover, Random House

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ISBN 9780142437193 (0-14-243719-0, 0142437190)

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In Patagonia

by Bruce Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 0142437190 (0-14-243719-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwins exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through the uttermost part of the earth that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcomein search of almost forgotten legends, the descendants of Welsh immigrants, and the log cabin built by Butch Cassidy. An instant classic upon publication in 1977, In Patagonia is a masterpiece that has cast a long shadow upon the literary world.

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In Patagonia: ISBN 0142437190 (0-14-243719-0)
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In Tasmania

by Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 0099466082 (0-09-946608-2)
Softcover, Random House

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In Tasmania: ISBN 0099466082 (0-09-946608-2)
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Londoners

by Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 028399231X (0-283-99231-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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ISBN 9780375400698 (0-375-40069-9, 0375400699)

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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman, Nicholas Shakespeare

ISBN 0375400699 (0-375-40069-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to Dr. Juvenal Urbino so many years before, Garc�a M�rquez has created a vividly absorbing fictional world, as lush and dazzling as a dream and as real and immediate as our own deepest longings. Now available for the first time in the Contemporary Classics series! [via]

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