The Tree Where Man Was BornA timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to portray the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years. From the daily lives of wild herdsmen and the drama of predator kills to the field biologists investigating wild creatures and the anthropologists seeking humanity's origins in the rift valley, The Tree Where Man Was Born is a classic of journalistic observation. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by groundbreaking British primatologist Jane Goodall. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... community in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Her books include The Chimpanzees of Gombe, Through a Window, and Hope for the Animals and Their World. ALSO BY PETER MATTHIESSEN Fiction Race Rock Partisans Raditzer At.
... community in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Her books include The Chimpanzees of Gombe, Through a Window, and Hope for the Animals and Their World. ALSO BY PETER MATTHIESSEN Fiction Race Rock Partisans Raditzer At.
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Peter Matthiessen. ALSO BY PETER MATTHIESSEN Fiction Race Rock Partisans Raditzer At Play in the Fields of the Lord Far Tortuga On the River Styx and Other Stories Killing Mister Watson Lost Man's River Bone by Bone Shadow Country ...
Peter Matthiessen. ALSO BY PETER MATTHIESSEN Fiction Race Rock Partisans Raditzer At Play in the Fields of the Lord Far Tortuga On the River Styx and Other Stories Killing Mister Watson Lost Man's River Bone by Bone Shadow Country ...
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... rocks, but now there was no sign of life, no track. Seven millenniums ago, when men of Asia brought wheat and barley, sheep and goats, to the lower Nile, the desert was already spreading, and the work of drought was rapidly advanced by ...
... rocks, but now there was no sign of life, no track. Seven millenniums ago, when men of Asia brought wheat and barley, sheep and goats, to the lower Nile, the desert was already spreading, and the work of drought was rapidly advanced by ...
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... rock paintings, and the bones of man and prey. It is presently assumed that Bushmanoid, Pygmoid, and Negroid are races of an ancestral African who adapted over the millenniums to differing environments—the open grasslands, the ...
... rock paintings, and the bones of man and prey. It is presently assumed that Bushmanoid, Pygmoid, and Negroid are races of an ancestral African who adapted over the millenniums to differing environments—the open grasslands, the ...
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Contents
White Highlands I | 18 |
Northwest Frontier | 37 |
Siringet | 72 |
WI Rites of Passage | 112 |
Elephant Kingdoms | 129 |
Great Caldron Mountains | 161 |
Red God | 189 |
Notes | 255 |
Glossary | 261 |
Index | 267 |
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acacia animals arrow Bantu baobab Barabaig birds buffalo bush camp cattle century climb clouds Crater Highlands crossed dark dead desert dogs Dorobo ears earth East Africa elephant Enderlein Engaruka escarpment eyes feet fire forest gazelle George Schaller Gidabembe Giga grass Hadza Hamitic head herd herdsmen hide hills hunters hunting huts hyena Iain Isanzu Kamba Kenya Kikuyu killed Kopjes Lake Lake Natron Land Rover Lengai leopard light lion live Llo-molo Maasai Maasai Land Magandula Mangati Manyara Mbulu Meru miles mountain Myles Nairobi Nangai Natron Ngorongoro night Nile numbers Ol Doinyo Lengai park plain rain region rhino Rift river road rock safari Samburu Schaller Serengeti Seronera shadow Sipunga Sonjo spears stone stood strange Sudan Tanzania thorn track trees tribes truck Tsavo tsetse Turkana turned valley Vesey volcano vultures wild wildebeest wind Yaida Chini zebra