Chatwin, Bruce:  What Am I Doing Here?

Introduction

1 Written For Friends and Family

Assunta – A Story

Assunta 2 – A Story

Your Father’s Eyes Are Blue Again

2 Strange Encounters

A Coup – A Story

The Lyman Family – A Story

Until My Blood Is Pure – A Story

The Chinese Geomancer

3 Friends

George Ortiz

Kevin Volans

Howard Hodgkin

At Dinner with Diana Vreeland

4 Encounters

Nadezhda Mandelstam: A Visit

Madeline Vionnet

Maria Reiche: The Riddle of the Pampa

Konstantin Melnikov: Architect

André Malraux

Werner Herzog in Ghana

5 Russia

George Costakis: The Story of an Art Collector in the Soviet Union

The Volga

6 China

Heavenly Horses

Rock’s World

Nomad Invasions

7 People

Shamdev: The Wolf-Boy

The Very Sad Story of Salah Bougrine

Donald Evans

8 Travel

On Yeti Tracks

A Lament for Afghanistan

9 Two More People

Ernst Jünger: An Aesthete at War

On the Road with Mrs G.

10 Coda

The Albatross

Chiloe

11 Tales of the Art World

The Duke of M------

The Bey

The Fly

My Modi