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 86
... once common on these plains . Possibly the white rhino , which is twice the weight of the black , is a giant form that has persisted into the present ; although confined to the west bank of the Nile in the south Sudan and adjacent ...
... once common on these plains . Possibly the white rhino , which is twice the weight of the black , is a giant form that has persisted into the present ; although confined to the west bank of the Nile in the south Sudan and adjacent ...
Page 207
... once more against the sky , in its talons a gleam of unknown life from the vol- cano . We walked out into the silence of the flats . Somewhere on the mud , our footprints crossed the border of Tanzania , for Natron lies entirely in that ...
... once more against the sky , in its talons a gleam of unknown life from the vol- cano . We walked out into the silence of the flats . Somewhere on the mud , our footprints crossed the border of Tanzania , for Natron lies entirely in that ...
Page 225
... once said to me , " You are nicely welcomed to Samburu . " With his wood ladle he stirs maize meal into boiling water to make the thick white paste called ugali that is subsistence in East Af- rica ; ugali , eaten with the fingers , is ...
... once said to me , " You are nicely welcomed to Samburu . " With his wood ladle he stirs maize meal into boiling water to make the thick white paste called ugali that is subsistence in East Af- rica ; ugali , eaten with the fingers , is ...
Contents
The Tree Where Man Was Born | 21 |
White Highlands | 31 |
Northwest Frontier | 49 |
Copyright | |
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