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Description: 225 p. ; 21 cm. Summary: Chronicles the author's travels through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Gabon and Zaire in search of disappearing animal species during the 1970s and 1980s. Matthiessen also focuses attention on the ways of life being threatened by the disappearance of species and by bankrupt political regimes. Subjects; Zoology. Politics. Africa. Travel.
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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.
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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.
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.
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- ÉditeurThe Harvill Press
- Date d'édition1991
- ISBN 10 0002711869
- ISBN 13 9780002711869
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Description du livre Etat : Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780002711869. N° de réf. du vendeur 9013849
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Description du livre First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description: 225 p. ; 21 cm. Summary: Chronicles the author's travels through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Gabon and Zaire in search of disappearing animal species during the 1970s and 1980s. Matthiessen also focuses attention on the ways of life being threatened by the disappearance of species and by bankrupt political regimes. Subjects; Zoology. Politics. Africa. Travel. 1 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 239908
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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : Very Good-. First Paperback Edition. Light crease to spine.; Travels in Africa, pygmies, bush elephants, endangered wildlife. 280gms weight ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 19564
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Description du livre First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description: 225 p. ; 21 cm. Summary: Chronicles the author's travels through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Gabon and Zaire in search of disappearing animal species during the 1970s and 1980s. Matthiessen also focuses attention on the ways of life being threatened by the disappearance of species and by bankrupt political regimes. Subjects; Zoology. Politics. Africa. Travel. 1 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 239908
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Published In 1991 : 1st. Edition : 1st. Printing : Full Printing Numbers Listed , 1 - 9 : Harper Collins / Harvill Publishing : Very Light To Faint Face Wear To The Dust Wrapper : ( Mainly The Back Face ) : Spine Tilt : Price Un-Clipped : Leaf Edges Are A Little Dusty : Very Clean Copy Throughout : Ex Library Copy With The Usual Stamps & Markings : The Front End-Paper Is Still Intact : No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text : N° de réf. du vendeur 44 - 5566
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Description du livre Hardback. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st edition. ~Dustwrapper unfaded and unclipped. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders with tracking, overseas orders on request. Size: xi, 225pp. With dustwrapper. Owner's signature. Binding sound, text unmarked. N° de réf. du vendeur GG3192
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