The life of Bruce Chatwin: "a magnificent raconteur of Scheherazadean inexhaustibility" -- In Patagonia: "the ultimate southern journey" -- The Viceroy of Ouidah: "a clash of cultural myths" -- On the black hill: "simpletons, saints, and grotesques" -- The songlines: "a seething gallimaufry of a book" -- Utz: "museum or mausoleum?" -- What am I doing here and Anatomy of restlessness: "the search for the miraculous" -- Far journeys: photographs and notebooks, "numinous visionary".