by Peter Matthiessen · The Harvill Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9781860460166
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«The Tree Where Man Was Born» is Peter Matthiessen's travel and nature essay, published by The Harvill Press in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
Peter Matthiessen travels through East Africa, from the upper Nile to Tanzania and Lake Rudolf. He combines travel writing with naturalist observation to portray the lives of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers, the great fauna, the landscapes and historical traces of the continent, and reflects on the relationship between humans and nature.
First installment of Peter Matthiessen's African Trilogy. Finalist for the National Book Award in 1973. The work was originally published in 1972.
For readers interested in travel literature, nature and the history of East Africa.
Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.
