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African silences by Matthiessen, Peter. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>african Silences Is A Powerful And Sobering Account Of The Cataclysmic Depredation Of The African Landscape And Its Wildlife. In This Critically Acclaimed Work Peter Matthiessen Explores New Terrain On A Continent He Has Written About In Two Previous Books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- Nominated For The National Book Award -- And Sand Rivers.<br><br>through His Eyes We See Elephants, White Rhinos, Gorillas, And Other Endangered Creatures Of The Wild. We Share The Drama Of The Journeys Themselves, Including A Hazardous Crossing Of The Continent In A Light Plane. And Along The Way, We Learn Of The Human Lives Oppressed By Bankrupt Political Regimes And Economies, And Threatened By The Slow Ecological Catastrophe To Which They Have Only Begun To Awaken.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>with This Account Of His Two Journeys To Africa, In 1978 And 1986, Matthiessen ( The Snow Leopard ) Offers His Readers A Superb Vicarious Experience. He Went First To West Africa--senegal, Gambia And Ivory Coast--to Find Out Which And How Many Animals Survived In The National Parks. The Object Of The Later Trip, On Which He Was Joined By David Western Of The New York Zoological Society, Was To Surve

Who reads African silences?

Author

Matthiessen, Peter.

Publisher

Vintage Books, 1992, c1991.

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307819673

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Nature

Rating

3.66 / 5 (104 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14