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225pp. 8vo White boards and green cloth back 1st edition so stated Fine/Fine 0-679-40021-4

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Has small pub. remainder mark. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Account of wildlife survey from three trips author took to west and central Africa & east to Kenya. 225 pp, map endpapers. Dust jacket has faded spine but titles are clear. Original prices of $21 US and $27 Canada on flap. Clean and straight in mylar covered jacket.

Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

USA: Random House Inc, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Good solid binding of green half cloth with gilt titles, cream cloth over boards, rubbed on edges. Minimal lib marks. Tight and solid sewn binding. Endpapers with maps of forest elephant and wildlife survey areas in Africa. Front endpaper has corner square clipped. Some pages wavy, clean and completely free from any markings. Jacket with illustration of mom and baby elephant, in cream and black; clean and unmarked except lib tag on spine, slight edgewear, not price-clipped. Library mylar cover removed and replaced with new archival cover. Matthiessen is renowned for his travels to some of the most exotic and inaccessible places on earth. Here he traces his journeys to West Africa, to Zaire in search of the rare Congo peacock, to Central Africa with ecologist David Western to determine the status of the small forest elephant in the Congo basin. He gives a portrait of vanishing worlds and what is replacing them. 225 pages. 8.5 x 5.8 inches. New York, Random House, 1991.

Random House, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. .

1st: Random House, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 225 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462308

NY: Random House Inc (T), 1991. 1st Edition. HARDBOUND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 1st Edition. pp. 225. Publisher: Random House; 1st Edition (July 20, 1991) Language: English HARDBOUND: 225 pages ISBN-10: 9780679400219 ISBN-13: 978-0679400219 Item Weight: 15.2 OUNCES. African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born--nominated for the National Book Award--and Sand Rivers. Through his eyes we see elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures of the wild. We share the drama of the journeys themselves, including a hazardous crossing of the continent in a light plane. And along the way, we learn of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies, and threatened by the slow ecological catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken. From the Trade SOFTCOVER edition.