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Peter Matthiessen "The Tree Where Man Was Born (Classic, Nature, Penguin)"
Penguin (Non-Classics) 1995 0140239340 / 9780140239348 Paperback Very Good
"tight, some light cover edge handling, scuffing and creases along the cover edges and first few pages.() In this classic volume, Matthiessen exquisitely combines both nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully portrays the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers: the drama of the predator kills: the hundreds of exotic animals: the breathtaking landscapes: and the area's turbulent natural, political, and social histories. ID: mon0000114537"
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7.82 USD
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Peter Matthiessen African Silences
Random House 1991 0679400214 / 9780679400219 Hardcover New
"Brand New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket)() African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- nominated for the National Book Award -- and Sand Rivers. Through his eyes we see elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures of the wild. We share the drama of the journeys themselves, including a hazardous crossing of the continent in a light plane. And along the way, we learn of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies, and threatened by the slow ecological catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken. From the Trade Paperback edition. ID: mon0000056222"
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9.79 USD
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Peter Matthiessen End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica
National Geographic 2004 0792268369 / 9780792268369 Paperback Very Good
"'() Now in a paperback edition, America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-of-beyond voyage to the world's most unforgiving land, the islands off Antarctica's northern ice shelf, and to that second most remote place on earth, South Georgia Island, ''the last outpost in a great emptiness of ocean.'' Matthiessen has once again lit upon a subject profoundly fitted to his creative genius. He is simply the ultimate lyricist of loss, a writer brilliantly attentive to the way vanishings are braided into even the most exquisite moments of our lives. He agonizes over what is passing away, but does so in a manner that increases our appreciation of what remains. In ''End of the Earth,'' Matthiessen joins the crew of the Akademik - a 384-foot research vessel bound for wild and storied South Georgia Island and Antarctica. Along the way we are treated to a patented Matthiessen brew: lyricism and emotion applied to the sharp-eyed evaluations '''' ID: mon0000087858"
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6.84 USD
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