Under The Mountain Wall
A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
$44.43
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2013
Summary
‘Matthiessen is a talented writer and imaginative traveller and a man of true originality’ Independent
In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961 which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons. The result was this classic account, not of the expedition but of a lost culture; the Kurelu’s timele…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099575672 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099575671 |
| Author: | Peter Matthiessen |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Peter Matthiessen is an original and powerful artist who has produced as impressive a body of work as that of any writer of our time. Both as a novelist and as a naturalist he has immeasurably enlarged our consciousness
Matthiessen-is a writer of great integrity, who lives the life he writes, and yet whose scathing critique of our all-consuming, all-exploiting society is also realistic * Scotland on Sunday *
Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen was a naturalist, explorer and writer. His works of fiction include At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga and the acclaimed ‘Watson Trilogy’. His explorations resulted in many fine works of non-fiction, among them The Snow Leopard, The Cloud Forest and The Tree where Man was Born. He died in 2014, aged 86.
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