Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Can it really be 30 years since writer and traveller Bruce Chatwin died? The author of The Songlines counted maverick German film-maker Werner Herzog as a friend and collaborator. Now the director sets out on his own Chatwin-like peregrination around the world, from Patagonia to the Australian outback and the Black Hills in Wales.

This being Herzog, don’t expect it to be a linear tribute to Chatwin. It’s a more circuitous, off-the-beaten-track affair, full of diversions, strange interludes and with an arresting soundtrack. And for those who question the writer’s sometimes cavalier approach to facts, his biographer puts it neatly: “Bruce didn’t tell half-truths; he told the truth and a half.”