African Silences

Peter Matthiessen

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"Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition" (New York Times Book Review) offers a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. Critically acclaimed, African Silences explores the continent and captures the elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures of the wild. Map.

Book Details

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: Jun 30th, 1992
Pages: 240
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.99in - 5.20in - 0.68in - 0.64lb
EAN: 9780679731023
Categories: • Essays• Environmental Conservation & Protection - General

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.

Praise for this book

"Deeply gripping... with a prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion." -- Washington Post Book World

"Matthiessen is a great travel companion ..... His knowledge of plants, animals and people is breathtaking." -- Boston Globe