On the black hill

<Tab/>The Purpose of this essay is to explore the thesis from "Nomad Invasions" and to relate some statements in the article "Border Country" to the novel titled On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin. From the "Nomad Invasions", the main thesis shows that, "we should perhaps allow human nature an appetitive drive for movement in the widest sense. The act of journeying contributes towards a sense of physical and mental …

…at Brown's Green. This could have been one possible life scenario had the author Bruce not left home. Bruce might has put himself as one of the twins characters. In On the Black Hill, "The novel is about two brothers who do not wander, who do not marry, who complete each other in a way Bruce himself seemed to have longed for. It explored what would have happened if he had never left home."(pp 381)