There are two extant collections of Bruce Chatwin's shorter writing; What Am I Doing Here, which was put together by the author himself before his death, and Anatomy of Restlessness, which was edited by Jan Borm and Matthew Graves. Both include material from Chatwin's days at the Sunday Times, though the opening trio of stories in What Am I Doing Here are original pieces written for the book. Together, they testify to the broad range of Chatwin's interest, who once commented that his whole life was 'a search for the miraculous.' Astonishing tales certainly abound: of kidnap in Benin, a boy raised by wolves, of murderous glaciologists. One of Chatwin's talents, however, was in finding the miraculous in the seemingly everyday and, in his incisive demolition of Indira Gandhi, or his moving depiction of the plight of Algerian immigrants to France, one perceives what made him both a good journalist and an excellent novelist.
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