The World's Oldest 'Oral Library' - And What Bruce Chatwin Did With (And To) It
"Perhaps the oldest oral library in the world was formed over a span of tens of thousands of years in the arid lands of central Australia. There, the Arrernte people developed a complex system of tribal knowledge, beliefs, duties, and ethics" and memorialized it in a series of stories. In the 1980s, Bruce Chatwin spent […]