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If this were so if the desert were 'home' if our instincts were forged in the desert to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.

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Bruce Chatwin
Age: 48 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 13
Died: 1989
Died: January 18
Author
Explorer
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Sheffield
England
Charles Bruce Chatwin
C. Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Charles Chatwin
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