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After attending marlborough school he began work as a porter at sothebys. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both world war ii and czechoslovakias years of stalinism, numbers more. Charles bruce chatwin was an english novelist and travel writer. Eight years later, having become one of sothebys youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world trav.
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