The Tree Where Man Was Born: The African Experience
by Matthiessen, Peter; Porter, Eliot (Photographs by)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525222650
- ISBN 13
- 9780525222651
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 088219
- Title
- The Tree Where Man Was Born: The African Experience
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter; Porter, Eliot (Photographs by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0525222650
- ISBN 13
- 9780525222651
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Photography / Individual Photographer; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes; African / Modern & Contemporary Art;
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