![]() Two years later, in November 1974, Chatwin flew out to Lima, Peru, and reached Patagonia a month later. "I've always wanted to go there," Bruce told her. In 1972, he interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of the area of South America called Patagonia, which she had painted. In 1972, Chatwin was hired by the Sunday Times Magazine as an adviser on art and architecture. The skin was later lost, but it inspired Chatwin decades later to visit Patagonia. ![]() He sent his cousin a piece of the animal's skin. In a cave in Chilean Patagonia, Milward had discovered the remains of a giant sloth, which he later sold to the British Museum. Among the items it contained was a "piece of brontosaurus" (actually a mylodon, a giant sloth), which had been sent to Chatwin's grandmother by her cousin Charles Amherst Milward. In Patagonia is an English travel book by Bruce Chatwin, published in 1977, about Patagonia, the southern part of South America.ĭuring the Second World War, Chatwin and his mother stayed at the home of his paternal grandparents, who had a curiosity cabinet that fascinated him. ![]()
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