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The tree where man was born

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Picador, Jan 1, 1984 - Philosophy - 256 pages

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Review: The Tree Where Man Was Born (The African Trilogy #1)

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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 ... Read full review

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I listened to this book and it was like listening to a beautiful painting of Africa Read full review

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Contents

The Tree Where Man Was Born
15
White Highlands
30
Northwest Frontier
46
Copyright

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About the author (1984)

Nature writer and novelist Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City on May 22, 1927. He graduated from Yale University in 1950. He worked as a commercial fisherman and the captain of a charter fishing boat and made several scientific expeditions to Alaska, Peru and New Guinea. He and Harold L. Humes founded the Paris Review, and Matthiessen was its first fiction editor. Matthiessen's nature books include "Wildlife in America," "The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness" and "Under the Mountain Wall." His fiction includes "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," which was made into a movie starring Tom Berenger and was nominated for the National Book Award. Matthiessen's other awards include the John Burroughs Medal and the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation Award.

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TitleThe tree where man was born
Picador Bks
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
Editionillustrated
PublisherPicador, 1984
ISBN0330281968, 9780330281966
Length256 pages
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