What Am I Doing Here Author:Bruce Chatwin Bruce Chatwin -- traveler, adventurer, literary craftsman -- was, in his life as in his art, forever in quest of the extraordinary, the exotic, and the unexpected. — In this collection of profiles, travelogues, and stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston, to meet an LSD guru who believes he... more » is Christ; to India with Indira Gandhi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal, where he reminds us that "Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot."
The poetic record of Chatwin's life, interests, and preoccupations, "What Am I Doing Here" is a stirring portrait of the quintessential traveling tale-teller of his day.
ISBN 9780140115772
First published in 1989; reprinted by Penguin in 1990.« less