--- product_id: 79550157 title: "The Tree Where Man Was Born" price: "180 kr" currency: DKK in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.dk/products/79550157-the-tree-where-man-was-born store_origin: DK region: Denmark --- # The Tree Where Man Was Born **Price:** 180 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Tree Where Man Was Born - **How much does it cost?** 180 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.dk](https://www.desertcart.dk/products/79550157-the-tree-where-man-was-born) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to portray the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years. From the daily lives of wild herdsmen and the drama of predator kills to the field biologists investigating wild creatures and the anthropologists seeking humanity's origins in the rift valley, The Tree Where Man Was Born is a classic of journalistic observation. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by groundbreaking British primatologist Jane Goodall. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Review: One of the best books on Africa - This book is so well written and highly informative. It is a must read for anyone who seeks knowledge about Africa. Review: It's a journey through East Africa like no other - An icon of a book - unique in its craft. It's a journey through East Africa like no other. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #323,757 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #801 in Travel Writing (Books) #2,057 in Biology Books #10,357 in Biographies & Autobiographies (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 218 Reviews | ## Images ![The Tree Where Man Was Born - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KMK+MqwqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best books on Africa *by V***M on 9 August 2022* This book is so well written and highly informative. It is a must read for anyone who seeks knowledge about Africa. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's a journey through East Africa like no other *by A***R on 30 September 2016* An icon of a book - unique in its craft. It's a journey through East Africa like no other. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ His respect for the land and people fills every observation *by J***Y on 21 October 2010* The Tree Where Man Was Born (Classic, Nature, Penguin)The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen My rating: 5 of 5 stars I bought this book before I knew who Peter Matthiessen was, namely, one of the greatest nature writers of all time. Because of the book's title, I thought the author would tie present day East Africa to a by-gone era when man was primitive and evolving and nature ruled. I read the first one-hundred fifty pages and put it down for five years before returning to it. At that time, I was lost in my passion for the life and times of early man and not so interested in anything that rhymed with 'present day'. Then, after finishing that portion of my writing, I returned to what might be Matthiessen's greatest nature book (well, there is Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. Hard to pick). When I picked it up the second time, I couldn't put it down. His descriptions of nature, the depth of understanding he voices for the people of the land, his vivid descriptions of what happens around him are like no one else. Here are a few of my favorites: * Soon vegetation crowded the road, which was crossed at dusk by a band of bush-pig, neat-footed and burly, neck bristles erect, as if intent on punching holes right through the truck * Soft hills inset with outcrops of elephant-colored boulders rose beyond a bright stretch of blue river * Kamande Gatora is a contained person with the watchfulness of the near-blind; he had taken the Mau-Mau oath and been imprisoned, in the years after his mistress had gone home to Denmark, despite 'the kind deeds I was receiving from her untold and the old life we stayed with her * Marsabit in June: great elephants and volcanoes, lark song and bright butterflies and far below, pale desert wastes that vanish in the sands. * By morning the wind was blowing up in sandstorms. Flights of sand grouse, seeking water, hurtled back and forth over the cracking palms, and a train of camels etched a slow crack into the desert to the south. * Inland, black boulders climb to far-off ridges that rise in turn to the Kulal Mountains, in Rendille Land. * ...because the heat is dry and because the wind is never still for more than a few hours. * Since gnu are ever willing to stampede, the crossing is a hazard for the calves, and one morning of early winter more than six hundred drowned. * By late afternoon, when the predators become restless, raising their heads out of the grass to sniff the wind, those calves would already be running. I'm only to pg. 127... 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