What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin

What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce ChatwinIn this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'

Around the social turmoils of the war

Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure

the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality

but also specific

He knows them all - but she doesn't know a single one of his

I don't want

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags

in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will

in which good is pitted gainst overwhelming evil

the Doctor's daughter

another young woman is killed with her child and his brief involvement in their lives impels Parker to hunt their vicious murderer

One of Us Is Lying is a young adult