As a writer he was unclassifiably interesting: lucid, ironic, cool. He seemed to owe nothing to anybody.
Colin Thubron, Sunday Times

Chatwin is equally fascinating on places. He goes yeti-hunting in Nepal, and magnificently evokes the Himalayas' seductive harshness. He visits Afghanistan in the steps of his own favourite writer, Robert Byron, and reveals something no current news report ever succeeds in doing why anyone should want to spend time in that beautiful, tormented land...human existence at least as Chatwin sees it is gloriously open-ended, unpredictable and exotic
Sunday Times

One of its chief delights is that it contains so many of its author'sbest anecdotes, his choicest performances
Salman Rushdie, Observer

Brilliant
Guardian

I like the combination of its far-reaching quality and the minute precision with which his thoughts are charted
Rose Tremain, Sunday Times