Hard covered book titled FAR JOURNEYS Photographs and Notebooks by Bruce Chatwin. Introduction by Francis Wyndham, Designed by David King, First American Edition, 1993, 160 pages.

Chatwin's keen eye for color and composition and his special talent for noticing life's strange, riveting details are magnificently affirmed in this breathtaking volume. The photographs - taken principally in remote regions of Africa, South America, and Asia - provide a luminous glimpse of how he saw the world. The notebooks, which recount his adventures in and visual impressions of West Africa and Afghanistan, are trenchant, learned, and witty. Unexplored places and people are brought alive - Nouakchott shanty towns, Moorish travelers, Nepalese temples - the formal simplicity and perfection of their worlds portrayed. Lyrically and concisely, Chatwin evokes the vertiginous splendor of the shrine of Ansari and mudbrick granaries in Mali, the ghostly desolation of Mauretania, flower-filled garden in Afghanistan.

This book is in VG condition, with the pages clean and intact, and the binding is tight. There is an inscription to a former owner on the title page.