Worth noting though, I've a good friend (and phd student in sociology) who grew up in a saami/laplander family with a semi-nomadic lifestyle (they still have plenty of rain-deers and quite a nomadic lifestyle), and she didn't much rate the stuff Chatwin wrote on saami nomads.
Reactions to Ishiguro receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Just read The Invention of Nature, The Life and Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt
We never fall twice down the same abyss. But we always fall in the same manner, with a mixture of the dread and the ridicule. And the will to not fall again is so strong that we brace ourselves and scream.
Falling Down, I highly recommend all of Steinbeck's writing with East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath as my favourites.