A review by anjarama
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

3.0

I had a love hate relationship with this book. Learned plenty, repulsed by his judgemental white privileged male perspective, fascinated by the understanding of land it awoke, frustrated by Bruce’s ‘everyone should be on the move and are not as good as me for not being’ attitude, wondering how Songlines would be if written from a neutral place, glad it is over.

Found myself likening the sections from his notebooks to the Elven genealogy/history section of Lord of the Rings.