All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The author and publisher are grateful to Faber and Faber for permission to print lines from Ezra Pound’s version of ‘Exile’s Letter’, from Selected Poems 1908–1959, 1975.
Copyright © 1982 by Bruce Chatwin
Cover design by Jason Gabbert
ISBN: 978-1-5040-3834-8
This edition published in 2016 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
180 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038