During the winter of 1969, Bruce Chatwin wrote an exceptionally long letter to Tom Maschler, the head of Jonathan Cape. “You asked me to write you a letter about my proposed book on nomads,” he wrote. “The question I will try to answer is, ‘Why do men wander rather than sit still?'”

The whole article can be found here: Bruce Chatwin: Could this be the last great man of letters?

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