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OverviewAfrican 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter MatthiessenPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Vintage Books Edition: Reprinted edition Dimensions: Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 20.20cm Weight: 0.204kg ISBN: 9780679731023ISBN 10: 0679731024 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 30 June 1992 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""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" Deeply gripping... with a prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion. -- Washington Post Book World <br> Matthiessen is a great travel companion ..... His knowledge of plants, animals and people is breathtaking. -- Boston Globe 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 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 Author InformationPeter 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |