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Random House. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Peter Matthiessen's custom book label inside. From the collection of American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA officer Peter Matthiessen.

Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket.

Stated First Edition-first printing- Brodart jacket-" 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 Paperback edition. From the Back Cover: "Deeply gripping. with a prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion." -- Washington Post Book World "Matthiessen is a great travel companion . His knowledge of plants and,animals and people is breathtaking." -- Boston Globe"

About new book, unmarked in crisp dust jacket.; 225 pages.

New York: Random House Inc, 1991. Book. N-Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A square solid tight over-all clean copy with some light reading wear. Two pages hace corner creases and thewre is a small light stain to the bottom pagedges. The jacket has some very light rubbing,very light soil and is wrinkled along the top edges although there are no stains present..

Random House. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. From the collection of American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA officer Peter Matthiessen.

New York, NY: Random House, 1991. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. American First. First edition, first printing indicated in Random House fashion with a number line from 2 to 9 with the words First Edition printed below; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve..

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Very clean beige boards with green cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, but has tiny (almost imperceptible) dent at bottom of front board. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Maps on endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 225 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped and enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Africa.

Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket.