THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN, and THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE, Peter Matthiessen and Eliot Porter
35443 E P Dutton & Co, New York - first edition 1972 hardcover, 10" x 11¼", with dust jacket 248 pages This book is unlike any other on the human and natural history of East Africa - Peter Matthiessen and Eliot Porter, usually working apart, roamed the ancient land of man's origins to create two parallel statements - one in a hundred thousand words, the other in 100 colour photographs - in one enduring volume. They evoke the African experience from the upper Nile in the little-known Sudan, south through Tanzania, northwest to remote Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier. Repaired short tear at rear of jacket. Sound binding; no foxing. VERY GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket $40.00AUD Click here to order or message the dealer
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