The Tree Where Man Was Born, Peter Matthiessen
The Tree Where Man Was Born, Peter Matthiessen
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The Tree Where Man Was Born

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2010

Synopsis

In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years: the daily lives of herdsmen and huntergatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking landscapes; the area's turbulent natural, political, and social histories; the adventures of the field biologists who pursue and investigate the habits of wild creatures; the anthropologists seeking mans origins throughout the Rift Valley; and the lonely African, poised between the traditional ways and the conflicting demands of Western culture.

About Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) was the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller The Snow Leopard. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974. He was cofounder of the Paris Review and won two National Book Awards, the 2000 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the 2010 Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kavita

American naturalist Peter Matthiessen travelled throughout Africa and wrote three books, of which The Tree Where Man Was Born was the first one. Matthiessen starts his journey in today's South Sudan and travels across Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. He explores the wildlife and documents the practices......more

Goodreads review by Linda

I purchased this book in anticipation of a journey to Africa. This chronicle is nonfiction, but it reads with the depth and intensity of poetry. Even though this book was written about the author’s experience and impressions of Africa on a series of trips in the 1960’s his insights remain timeless.......more

Goodreads review by Adam

The Tree Where Man Was Born is a series of belle lettres essays on various aspects of natural history and anthropology in northern Tanzania (with a bit of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Kenya thrown in). It is good for its time, but it was Peter Matthiessen's blessing and curse to live in a time before Barry......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

This one's a mixed bag, with long sections describing the ethnology of the various tribes and peoples in places totally obscure to me, which I found tough to follow. Am I glad though, that I did not give up on the book after the brutally lengthy third chapter, but grudgingly gave it another shot aft......more

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