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First edition in Near Fine condition with a Near Fine dust jacket; a clean, tight copy. 8vo. - over 7¾' - 9¾'.

Random House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight rubbing and browning to jacket; slight internal browning to edges. [12], 225, [2] pages. 'A portrait of vanishing worlds and what is replacing them' (jacket front flyleaf) by the noted American naturalist.b/w Decorative Title Page & headpieces; 4 Maps / Endpapers (green/white).

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

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed.. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679400214 . Cloth-backed boards, map endpapers. Account of the author's wildlife surveys In 1978 in Ivory Coast, Liberia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and the Gambia and in 1986 in Kenya, Zaire, Tanzania, Congo, Angola, Gabon, Central African Republic, and Sudan. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages .

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1991. The dj is bumped and has mylar covering. Pages are clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo. Ex-Library.

Wear and tear to extremities of dust wrapper. Top of dust wrapper missing a piece at spine.Light age and reading wear to book. 226 pages. No internal inscriptions. No torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Animals & Birds; Natural History; Africa; Travel & Places. ISBN: 0679400214. ISBN/EAN: 9780679400219. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55572.

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.

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"

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.

First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.