True or not(and Chatwin often made things up), I was intrigued.
Chatwin finds Ushuaia, the world's most
southernmost city, especially dispiriting, full of“blue-faced inhabitants[who] glared at strangers unkindly”.
Chatwin seems to find the Salesian Fathers museum even more depressing,
but this, too, has been completely transformed.
Forty years ago, the publication of In Patagonia made Bruce Chatwin famous overnight- in the English-speaking world at least.
Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia has served as a bible for those travelling
through South America since its publication 40 years ago.
Four decades on,
Stephen Keeling follows in the footsteps of the legendary travel writer to see how much Chatwin's Patagonia has changed.
When Chatwin arrived in Puerto Natales, 240km north of Punta Arenas, the“roofs
of the houses were scabby with rust and clattered in the wind.
Chatwin would be pleased to see that Simón is also remembered,
though the brutal ill-treatment he received is not- displays emphasize that Radowitzky was an anarchist and murderer.