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Authors: Bruce Chatwin

4
Ssu-Ma-Ch'ien,
Records of the Grand Historian of China (Shih Chi)
, trans. B. Watson (New York and London, 1961), ch. 110, p. 169.
5
For pastoral nomadism see O. Lattimore,
Inner Asian Frontiers of China,
reprint (New York, 1962), P. 238 ff.
6
E. Breatschneider,
Mediaeval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources
(London, 1910), vol. I, P. 25.
7
Hippocrates,
Airs
,
Waters and Places,
xvii.
8
Ssu-Ma-Ch'ien, op. cit., ch. 48.
9
Marcellinus,
History,
xxxi, 2. 10.
10
Sidonius,
Letter
xx.
11
Herodotus iv, 76-80.
12
E. H. Parker,
One Thousand Years of the Tartars,
2nd edn rev. (New York, 1924), p. 49.
13
Ssu-Ma-Ch'ien, op. cit, ch. 108.
14
Ibid., ch. 10.
15
Herodotus, iv, 46.
16
Ibid., 126, 127.
17
Kalevala,
trans. W. F. Kirby (London, 1925), rune vi, 25.
18
J. D. P. Bolton,
Aristeas of Proconnessus
(Oxford, 1962).
19
Pliny,
Nat. Hist
., vii, 2.
20
Bolton, op. cit., notes to ch. iv, 7 (quotes Shan-Hai-Ching, Ssu Pu Ts-ung K'an edition, B-55/56a).
21
Ibid., p. B-43a/4b.
22
Ibid., p. 101 (quotes J. Legge,
The Chinese Classics,
vol. III, 1, p. 151).
23
Matthew Paris,
Chronicle,
cd. H. R. Luard, Rolls Series (London, 1872-1883), vol. IV, p. 27.
24
Ammianus Marcellinus,
History
, xxxi. 21.
25
Jordanes,
Gothic History
, ed. C. C. Mierow (Princeton, 1915), section 127.
26
Ssu-Ma-Ch'ien, op. cit., ch. 108.
27
Mental attitudes die hard. A Russian Imperial Commission to the Reindeer Tungus on the Amur River wrote that ‘they resemble dogs or horses, but have nothing in common with the race of men'. See Lindgren, ‘North West Manchuria and the Reindeer Tungus',
Geographical Journal
75 (1930), p. 532.
28
N. K. Chadwick, ‘The Spiritual Ideas and Experiences of the Tartars of Central Asia',
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
66 (1936), p. 293 ff.
29
Herodotus, iv, 105.
30
M. Eliade,
Shamanism – Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
(New York, 1962).
31
E. R. Dodds,
The Greeks and The Irrational,
sixth printing (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968), p. 140.
32
G. Roheim,
Hungarian and Vogul Mythology,
Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, vol. XXIII (New York, 1954). p. 51.
33
Herodotus, iv, 74, 75.
34
E. R. Dodds, op. cit., p. 140.
35
Babrius,
Fab. Aesop
, Preamb. 1-13.
36
Roheim, op. cit., p. 51.
37
Ynglinga Saga,
trans. E. Monson and A.H. Smith (Cambridge, 1932), vol. VII, p. 5.
38
Ssu-Ma-Ch'ien, op. cit., ch. 110.
39
F. Reitman,
Psychotic Art
(London, 1950), p. 62.
40
M. Eliade,
The Forge and the Crucible
(New York, 1962), p. 81 ff.
41
Desert, Marsh and Mountain,
Wilfred Thesiger, London: Collins, 1979.
42
Los Vengadores de la Patagonia Trágica,
Osvaldo Bayer, Buenos Aíres: Editorial Galema, 1972-4.
43
Robert Louis Stevenson,
James Pope-Hennessy, London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.
44
The Yea
r
of the Greylag Goose,
Konrad Lorenz, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.
45
‘Die angeborenen Formen möglicher Erfahrung' in
Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie,
Bd 5, Heft 2, 1943, p. 235 ff. In this work Lorenz's old father is quoted in a less genial mood: ‘From the stand-point of racial biology, the whole of medical practice is a disaster for mankind.'
46
This ‘ideal form for our race' is illustrated with a photo of Arno Breker's epicene statue of Dionysus, a favourite of Hitler and Speer; the fact that savages had quite different canons of beauty merely proved their innate inability to acquire civilisation.
47
‘Part and Parcel in Animal and Human Societies', in Lorenz,
Studies in Animal and Human Behaviour
(Harvard University Press, 1971), Vol. II, pp. 115-95.
48
‘Monism', as opposed to ‘Dualism', signifying the indivisibility of man from the rest of nature—often very similar, in form and content, to the new sociobiology.
49
The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Danvinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League
(MacDonald, London; N. Watson, N.Y., 1971).
50
Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas,
Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity
(repr. Octagon Books, 1965), pp. 19-22.
51
Distributed by New York Graphic Society.
52
Bruce Chatwin's contribution is entitled ‘The Guggenheim Family': an article first printed in
The Times Literary Supplement
under the title ‘The Guggenheim Saga'. Other contributing authors include Gore Vidal, V.S. Pritchett and Edward Jay Epstein.
53
Part of the series ‘Monographs on Contemporary Design'. Bruce Chatwin's contribution is derived from an article he wrote for
House & Garden
in June 1984, entitled ‘A Place to Hang your Hat', included in the present volume.
54
The transcript of a talk delivered by the author for the British Red Cross Society before a charity art auction held in London on 12 June 1973.
55
A collection of previously published literary works and excerpts by Havel, Kafka, Chatwin, Jirásck, Bachmann, Škvorecký.
56
The first article known to have been published by the author.
57
Unsigned.
58
Also printed in the American review
Triquarterly n° 46,
Fall 1979, pp. 43—56.
59
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘A Lament for Afghanistan', pp. 286—93.
60
Later included in
What Am I Doing Here,
pp. 70—8. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery in London from 22 September to 7 November 1982.
61
Reprinted from the
Sunday Times
magazine: published in the UK as ‘An Eye and Somebody'. In Robert Mapplethorpe,
Lady Lisa Lyon,
London: Blond & Briggs, 1983, 128 pp.
62
Reprinted in the
Vogue Bedside Book
(edited by Jonathan Ross), London: Vermilion, 1984, 256 pp.
63
Reprinted as ‘Nomad Invasions'. In
What Am I Doing Here,
pp. 329—37.
64
Featuring articles on Madeleine Vionnet (reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here,
pp. 86—93) and Sonia Delaunay.
65
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘George Costakis: The Story of an Art Collector in the Soviet Union', pp. 153—169.
66
The postscript to a series on the history of art entitled ‘One Million Years of Art' which Chatwin edited for the
Sunday Times
from 24 June to 26 August 1973.
67
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here,
pp. 195—205.
68
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘The Very Sad Story of Salah Bougrine', pp. 241—68.
69
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘André Malraux', pp. 114—35.
70
Chatwin's contribution to a magazine feature about occupied Paris entitled ‘Life goes on'. It was later rewritten and reprinted as ‘An Aesthete at War', in the
New York Review of Books, 5
March 1981, pp. 21—5.
71
A profile of Konrad Lorenz, excerpts of which were later included in the ‘From the Notebooks' section of
The Songlines
.
72
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘Maria Reiche', pp. 94—113.
73
A nine-page story later printed in
London Magazine Stories.
London: London Magazine Editions, 1979.
74
Respectively reprinted as ‘Nadezhda Mandelstam: A Visit' in
What Am I Doing Here,
pp. 83—5, and ‘Introduction' in Osip Mandelstam,
Journey to Armenia,
London: Redstone Press, 1989, pp. 4—7.
75
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘Shamdev: The Wolf-Boy', pp. 233—40.
76
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Herr,
pp. 316-40.
77
Later included in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘Ernest Jünger: An Aesthete at War', pp. 297-315.
78
Excerpts from the novel.
79
An excerpt from
On the Black Hill.
80
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘A Coup—A Story', pp. 15-35.
81
Reprinted as ‘The Volga'. In
Great Rivers of the World,
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984. Also included in
What Am I Doing Here
, pp. 170—91.
82
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
as ‘Rock's World', pp. 206—15.
83
An excerpt from
The Songlines.
84
An excerpt from
The Songlines.
85
A Review of Michael Ignatieff's novel
The Russian Album
(New York: Viking/Elisabeth Sifton Books, 1987).
86
Reprinted in
What Am I Doing Here
under the title ‘Konstantin Melnikov: Architect', pp. 105-13.
87
Reprinted as ‘Werner Herzog in Ghana' in
What Am I Doing Here
, pp. 136—49.
88
Excerpt from
What
Am
I Doing Here.
89
Reprinted in
What
Am
I
Doing
Here
under the title ‘Kevin Volans', pp. 63—9).
90
Excerpts from
What Am I Doing Here.
91
Excerpts from
What Am I Doing Here
.
92
Excerpt from
What Am I Doing Here
.
93
Contains the following excerpts from
What Am I Doing Here
: ‘At Dinner with D. Vreeland'; ‘The Duke of M—'; ‘My Modi'.
94
Excerpt from
What Am I Doing Here.
95
A slightly abridged version of the chapter ‘The Road to Ouidah' in
Photographs and Notebooks.

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