African Silences
The skilled naturalist writer is almost as rare as the Congo peacock or the pygmy elephant - both subjects of the quest Peter Matthiessen conducts in African Silences. 'Skilled' is almost an insulting understatement for Matthiessen's sharply captivating pros, as he mordantly digs away at the countries of west and central Africa, exposing their physical and moral corruptions in a manner somewhere between Orwell and V.S. Naipaul GARY MEAD, Financial TimesAfrican Silences is a spellbinding and sobering journey through Africa's ravaged wildernesses. In 1978 and again in 1986, Matthiessen travelled through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Zaire a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4481-5551-4
- EAN: 9781448155514
- Produktnummer: 14347019
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 353 KB
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Peter Matthiessen
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