The Resource The Tree where man was born / Peter Matthiessen
The Tree where man was born / Peter Matthiessen
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- Summary
- A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning "The Snow Leopard" and the new novel "In Paradise" 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. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by groundbreaking British primatologist Jane Goodall
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9781101663196
- Label
- The Tree where man was born / Peter Matthiessen
- Title
- The Tree where man was born / Peter Matthiessen
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Matthiessen; and The African experience; photographs by Eliot Porter
- Subject
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- trueEast Africa -- Description and travel
- trueEnvironmentalism
- trueMattiessen, Peter, 1927- -- Travel -- East Africa
- trueMen and nature
- trueNatural history
- trueNatural history -- East Africa
- trueNature Writing -- Natural Landscapes
- trueWildlife conservation
- trueTravel Writing -- Africa
- trueAnthropology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning "The Snow Leopard" and the new novel "In Paradise" 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. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by groundbreaking British primatologist Jane Goodall
- Summary
- On the great East African plain it is the human who feels himself the intruder. Here, and perhaps only here, the world is that of the animals. It is they who belong, as humans do not. In the more sensitive traveler this evokes a feeling of being privileged to observe ancient forms, settings and behavior that have survived intact from pre-history
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 209608
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Dewey number
- 916.76
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1901-1990
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Porter, Eliot
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Natural history
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Tree where man was born / Peter Matthiessen
- Control code
- ODILO:034300000743
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781101663196
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Tree where man was born / Peter Matthiessen
- Control code
- ODILO:034300000743
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781101663196
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- trueEast Africa -- Description and travel
- trueEnvironmentalism
- trueMattiessen, Peter, 1927- -- Travel -- East Africa
- trueMen and nature
- trueNatural history
- trueNatural history -- East Africa
- trueNature Writing -- Natural Landscapes
- trueWildlife conservation
- trueTravel Writing -- Africa
- trueAnthropology
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