"曠野的聲音"Mutant message down under,1999,智庫,李永平譯。曾是暢銷書,澳洲原住民數月,作者改說是小說,這些智慧的故事或者價值觀,也可以在美國大都市homeless 的黑人等找到
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"曠野的聲音",印象深的:澳洲原住民的語言和發音;用活埋來去毒;萬蠅繞身;拔髮作.....
我介紹時,就猜此書會像"小樹的歌" (整理所謂印地安人智慧)一書般爭議....
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin,
The Songlines Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song - and humanity's origins.
Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those songs were passed down to the Aboriginals, and for centuries they have served not only as a shared heritage but as a living map. Sing the right song, and it can guide you across the desert. Lose the words, and you will die.
Into this landscape steps Bruce Chatwin, the greatest travel writer of his generation, who comes to Australia to learn these songs. A born wanderer, whose lust for adventure has carried him to the farthest reaches of the globe, Chatwin is entranced by the cultural heritage of the Aboriginals. As he struggles to find the deepest meaning of these ancient, living songs, he is forced to embark on a much more difficult journey - through his own history - to reckon with the nature of language itself.
Part travelogue, part memoir, part novel, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's final - and most ambitious - works. From the author of the bestselling In Patagonia and On the Black Hill, a sweeping exploration of a landscape, a people, and one man's history, it is the sort of book that changes the listener forever.
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