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Original Title:	The Tree Where Man Was Born: The African Experience
ISBN:	0140239340 (ISBN13: 9780140239348)
Series:	The African Trilogy #1
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for The Sciences (1973)

The Tree Where Man Was Born (The African Trilogy #1)

Peter Matthiessen

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 731 Users | 78 Reviews

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Title	:	The Tree Where Man Was Born (The African Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Peter Matthiessen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1995 by Penguin Books (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Travel. Nonfiction. History. Environment. Nature. Eastern Africa. Tanzania. Science

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I purchased this book in anticipation of a journey to Africa. This chronicle is nonfiction, but it reads with the depth and intensity of poetry. Even though this book was written about the author’s experience and impressions of Africa on a series of trips in the 1960’s his insights remain timeless. The politics of Africa are convulsive and the boundaries of countries dynamic, but much of Tanzania and Kenya lands have been preserved and remain essentially the same as when Matthiessen visited 50 years ago. His descriptions of natural occurrences like the systematic attack of wild dogs on a new born zebra made me want to beg him to stop. But, he gives life to the landscape and all the animals that dwell there with same brilliant mastery of the language and pulls the reader forward. He does speak of mans beginnings as the title suggests, “Baboons in silhouette looked like early hominids hurling wild manic howling at my head.” Even though the information about the descent of mankind is fascinating, for me it is Matthiessen’s incredible descriptive powers that give magic to a land that is often harsh and unforgiving to man and beast. Speaking about Kilimanjaro he said, “The glacier glistens. A distant snow peak scours the mind, but a snow peak in the tropics draws the heart o a fine shimmering painful point of joy.”
I will read this book again when I return from Africa to compare notes and take lessons from a truly gifted writer.

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Weaving the natural sciences' language and terminology, ethnological data, observation, and reflection, Matthiessen creates a tapestry of East Africa as well as the human consciousness. His words and observations are as timely and thought provoking now as the were nearly fifty years ago as mankind faces the species threatening Sixth Extinction.

I had paged through this book of my parents for years. They had a copy of this book that included Elliot Porter's THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE photographs of East Africa, where I grew up. Many of the pictures capture the beauty of Northern Tanzania's landscapes and animals that it was enough to just page through it and remember and so I never ventured to read Peter Matthiessen's text hidden within it. As a geographer, I appreciated the two wonderful maps on this area and the wider East African

Couldn't finish this one - not what I thought it would be. I got about a third of the way through and gave up. Since it was written back in 1972, I'm not sure the scientific information on early man is accurate given more recent discoveries. Also, I get tired quickly of descriptions of animals killing and feeding.

A collection of travel stories and recollections from Mathiessen's trips to Africa in the 50's and 60's. Some tend to bounce around a bit, but every story, and every story within a story, is incredibly interesting and wonderfully well written with a prose that rolls along with the greatest of ease.

There was times reading this when I thought maybe I just didn't like nature writing. I mean sure, I like nature and I like writing - a lot in both cases - but I was pretty clear I didn't like this. As the book progressed, however, it became clearer that Mathiessen's award winner simply hasn't aged well.Like other writers in this genre, Mathiessen's book is based on his own observations, not detailed background research. His descriptions form the base of the book. Many of these involve predators

I purchased this book in anticipation of a journey to Africa. This chronicle is nonfiction, but it reads with the depth and intensity of poetry. Even though this book was written about the authors experience and impressions of Africa on a series of trips in the 1960s his insights remain timeless. The politics of Africa are convulsive and the boundaries of countries dynamic, but much of Tanzania and Kenya lands have been preserved and remain essentially the same as when Matthiessen visited 50

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