Bruce Chatwin dead? I vividly remember how stunned I was lastJan. 19 when I picked up my morning newspaper and learned of theEnglish writer's death at the tragically early age of 48. As anenthusiastic traveler and collector of travel writing, I consideredChatwin sui generis; he was a man whose visual gifts, married mostunusually to a questing, abstract reason, made him, in my view, thebest practitioner of that literary form in the world.
Ironically, it was travel that killed him. He had contracted arare disease of the bone marrow while traveling in China in the early1980s. Chatwin often reminded friends that …
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