Songlines

Long ago, in the Time of Dreams, the ancestors of all people created themselves from clay and set out to wander the world, scattering along the way a string of words and melodies. Thus, the legendary Songlines came into being, crossing all of Australia, serving simultaneously as roads, epic poems, and sacred places. In 1987, the famous English writer and traveler Bruce Chatwin came to Australia to "try to discover for himself—not from other people's books—what the Songlines are and how they work." The result of this trip was one of the most vivid and engaging books in the genre of "travel novel," an international bestseller translated into all major languages of the world. "Songlines" is not only a tale of an exciting journey through the wilds of Australia, not only an immersion into the complex and beautiful world of Australian Aboriginal mythology, but also an entertaining excursion into the history of ancient times in an attempt to shed light on "the nature of human restlessness."