The Cloud Forest [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Matthiessen, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1846553768 ISBN 13: 9781846553769

Casa editrice: Harvill Secker, 2009

Riassunto

Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and vast skies of Patagonia.

The result is an incisive and marvellously well-observed journal by a born writer and naturalist, a voyage of exploration among the people, places and fading wildlife of this most exotic and mysterious of continents.

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Recensione:

"[A] passionately observed and argued blend of natural history, ethnography, philosophy and mysticism written in a style for which the closest comparison is that of Joseph Conrad" (Independent)

"A completely delightful book... An extraordinary perception... Nowhere in The Cloud Forest did I come across a false note" (New York Times)

"His book deserves as long as life as the records of such earlier naturalists as Darwin, Bates and Hudson" (New York Herald Tribune)

"Probably the best writer in America" (Martin Cruz Smith)

Descrizione del libro:

'Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition' - Stephen Jay Gould

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvill Secker
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846553768
• ISBN 13: 9781846553769
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320