One of Chatwin's last books takes us on a moving, idiosyncratic journey to the world of Australia's aborigines. Jaguars Ripped My Flesh. By Tim Cahill. Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered. My Flesh features such essays as The Underwater Zombie, Rime of the Ancient Porcupine and No Laughs in Satan's Silt Hole.
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By Freya Stark. Freya Stark, born in 1893, was one of the most indefatigable, and courageous, of modern explorers. Travel, she wrote, does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. A Year in Provence. By Peter Mayle.