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The Tree Where Man Was Born; The African Experience
The Tree Where Man Was Born The African Experience Author:Peter Matthiessen, Eliot Porter (Photographer) On the great East African plain it is the human who feels himself the intruder. Here, and perhaps only here, the world is that of the animals. It is they who belong, as humans do not. In the more sensitive traveler this evokes a feeling of being privileged to observe ancient forms, settings and behavior that have survived intact from pre-h... more »istory. Matthiessen goes into the relationships between humans past and present in East Africa's great fauna with many a flash of insight into the instincts each has bred in the other. Matthiessen has an uncanny ability to make us see a raw and untouched landscape where only those people who have adapted their lives to the patterns of nature truly belong.« less