The Tree where Man was BornIn this classic volume, Matthiessen exquisitely combines both nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully portrays the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking landscapes; and the area's turbulent natural, political, and social histories. |
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Page 117
... hunters have ever been great liars , and except as fuel for nostalgia , their ex- ploits make repetitious reading , clogged as they are with stupefying lists of the carcasses left be- hind and encounters with death so constant as to ...
... hunters have ever been great liars , and except as fuel for nostalgia , their ex- ploits make repetitious reading , clogged as they are with stupefying lists of the carcasses left be- hind and encounters with death so constant as to ...
Page 161
... hunters , with a few nomadic Orma Boran and Ariangulo or " Waliangulu " have most of this hostile country to themselves . Like the Kamba , the Ariangulo , a little - known tribe of the nyika that speaks an eastern Hamitic tongue like ...
... hunters , with a few nomadic Orma Boran and Ariangulo or " Waliangulu " have most of this hostile country to themselves . Like the Kamba , the Ariangulo , a little - known tribe of the nyika that speaks an eastern Hamitic tongue like ...
Page 215
... hunters in a game - cropping scheme like the one that gave work to the Ariangulo ele- phant hunters in the region of Tsavo . Meanwhile , settlement by outsiders would be concentrated instead of scattered at random over the landscape ...
... hunters in a game - cropping scheme like the one that gave work to the Ariangulo ele- phant hunters in the region of Tsavo . Meanwhile , settlement by outsiders would be concentrated instead of scattered at random over the landscape ...
Contents
The Tree Where Man Was Born | 21 |
White Highlands | 31 |
Northwest Frontier | 49 |
Copyright | |
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