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No Particular Place to Go: Acclaimed travel writers examine four great works of British travel literature. 2/4. Tahir Shah sheds light on Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines.

No Particular Place to Go

A series of radio essays in which acclaimed travel writers examine four great works of British travel literature, books that changed the way we saw the world and the art of writing about it.

2/4. Tahir Shah sheds light on one of the giants of 20th-century British travel writing, Bruce Chatwin, and his acclaimed account of Aboriginal Australia in The Songlines.

15 minutes

Last on

Tue 4 Dec 2007 23:00

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  • Tue 4 Dec 2007 23:00

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