I read this on the flight to Australia and absolutely loved it. It's a travel book, a philosophy book, a history book and completely stunning.It chronicles Bruce Chatwin's attempts to understand the culture and mythology of the aborigines.

From the back of the book:
'I have a vision of the Songlines stretching across the continents and ages; that wherever men have trodden they have left a trail of song; and that these trails must reach back, in time and space, to an isolated pocket in the African savannah, where the First Man shouted the opening stanza of the World Song, "Iam!"'