Songlines and What Chatwin Made of Them
The 1987 book that made the term globally famous was itself presented by its own author as partly fictionalised. Aboriginal writers and anthropologists have since pointed out that it compressed many distinct, often restricted, language-group traditions into a single simplified English coinage.
Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (1987)
A term for Aboriginal Australian song-based paths across the land, popularised worldwide by one travel writer's bestselling book.