African Silences

Matthiessen, Peter.

ISBN 10: 0679400214 / ISBN 13: 9780679400219

Edité par Random House, New York, 1991

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225pp, endpaper maps. Or white papered boards with olive cloth spine, in jacket. Jacket price clipped with very slight edge weat and slightest of fading to spine. Matthiessen shares his journeys in Africa over many years, and shows us vanishing worlds. Along the way we are made aware of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and threatened by the ravaging of land and wildlife. Size: 8vo.

N° de réf. du vendeur 010421

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: African Silences
• Éditeur: Random House, New York
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0679400214
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679400219
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: Second Printing.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Travel & Exploration
  • Africa & South America

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Synopsis

Book by Matthiessen Peter

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.