African Silences by Matthiessen, Peter
African Silences by Matthiessen, Peter

African Silences

African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and...
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Author: Peter Matthiessen
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African Silences by Matthiessen, Peter

African Silences

$35.15
African Silences by Matthiessen, Peter

African Silences

$35.15
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/30/1992
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.20w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780679731023


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/01/1992

About the Author
Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it. Matthiessen died in 2014.


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