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In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Colin Thubron recommends it
This struck me as a rather different way of travel writing. It is very individual, with stark, short passages. There's very little of him in it. This is his walking journey in lower Patagonia, split between the Argentine and Chile, published in 1977.

on fivebooks.com · 22 Jul 2018

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.