12-7-19  Here is a small paragraph from the chapter about Donald Evans in Chatwin’s book:

IN February 1972, he packed his watercolours and a stack of perforated papers and flew to Holland where a friend had rented a cottage ‘ behind the dike ‘ ( Achterdijk ) near a village not far from Utrecht.  Immediately he set to work on the stamps of a ‘ Dutch ‘ country called Achterdijk.