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Author Name Matthiessen, Peter; Porter, Eliot Title The Tree Where Man Was Born and The African Experience Binding Cloth Book Condition Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket Edition Book of the Month Club Publisher New York E.P. Dutton 1972 ISBN Number 0525222650 / 9780525222651 Illustrator Eliot Porter Photographer Seller ID 5364 Over one hundred magnificent color photographs of East Africa, from the upper Nile in the little known Sudan, south through Tanzania, northwest to remote Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier. Rich display of human and natural history, portraying the daily life of herdsman and stone age aborigines, rural Africans, elephant behavior, as well as drama of a cheetah kill, and a record of the many fascinating animals and landscaps. Observed first hand are today's "white hunters", the field scientists who pursue and investigate the habits of lions, wild dogs and other predators; also anthroplogists who are beginning to unravel the mystery concerning man's origin. Tan cloth. DJ blue illustrated, 1/8th inch closed tear to upper edge, all else fine. Clean text, and photographs, solidly bound. First Edition BMOC. oversized sq. sm.4to, 247 pages. In light of today's tragedies in Eastern Africa, and important book.
The Tree Were Man Was Born, Peter Matthiessen Africa, stone age aborigines Nyiro River Game Preserve, Eliot Porter Photography Africa East African Wild Herdsman, Rural Africans Today, Elephant Behavior, African Studies, Photographs of East Africa, African Wildlife, African Desert, Anthropology, Field Scientists in Africa Africa, History, Natural History Photography
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