The Tree Where Man Was Born
A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by the National Book Award-winning author of The Snow Leopard, now with a new introduction by Jane Goodall. A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on...
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A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by the National Book Award-winning author of The Snow Leopard, now with a new introduction by Jane Goodall. A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to portray the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years. From the daily lives of wild herdsmen and the drama of predator kills to the field biologists investigating wild creatures and the anthropologists seeking humanity's origins in the rift valley, The Tree Where Man Was Born is a classic of journalistic observation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143106241 (0143106244)
Publish date: August 31st 2010
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Art,
Anthropology,
Photography
Series: The African Trilogy (#1)
Lovely prose, absolutely gorgeous words. Why did I have to stumble over this? Why did no one ever say to me, "Hey, you read all that nature stuff, there's this guy you positively have to read!" I listened to the audio version and was mostly entranced. There were some truly gory passages, of course- ...
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