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Stated First Edition. Number line: 24689753. Synopsis: 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. Maps on lining papers. Green cloth spine with gilt title and white paper over boards with design imprint on front board. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Contents include: Senegal, Gabia, Ivory Coast; Zaire and the Congo Basin.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Slightly smaller book, green cloth spine, marbled colored boards with tiny illustration and design at bottom front right, gilt lettering bright on spine, maps inside covers and adjacent end papers of West African Wildlife Survey--1978 and Congo Basin's Elephant Survey--1986. 225 pages. DJ price-clipped, beneath mylar, heavy paper with illustration of elephant and baby on front, b/w photo of Matthiessen on back. DJ and book, both Very Fine.

Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Peter Matthiessen to the previous owner on the half title page. 1st edition. Some minor wear to dust jacket. Foxing to end pages, otherwise very good.

Collectible-Good. Good dust jacket. Includes Peter Matthiessen's custom book label. From the library of American Novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA officer Peter Matthiessen. (natural history)

New York: Random House, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 225 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and spotting on top edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Record # 456235

New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679400214 . Light shelfwear to DJ and with one small inkstain ; An incisive and ultimately sad book about endangered wildlife in Africa, the conditions which give rise to poaching, the rampant corruption in government that contributes to the degradation of the environment. With maps in endpapers ; 8vo; 225 pages .

This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing).

Number line from 2 to 9 with the words First Edition printed below indicates a Random House first edition, first printing; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.