Sand Rivers

By Peter Matthiessen

Book Overview

In late 1979, the writer and naturalist Peter Matthiessen and the wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick joined a safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the largest yet least-known strongholds of wild animals left on earth. Sand Rivers is their beautiful account of a remarkable trip into this quintessential East African wilderness. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553013742
• ISBN13: 9780553013740
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A clear shimmering portrait of old Africa

Matthiessen writes of this wilderness as clearly as Van Lawick photographs it. The crack of the dry grass,the intense heat,the startling beauty of the birds,the fleeting glimpse of wary wildlife as well as the personalities of all from the game wardens to the porters are beautifully described in scholarly detail. This book is a trip into the last savannah wilderness in Africa and thanks to Matthiessen's talent as a writer...

A poignant excursion into one of earth's last wild places

Peter Mattheissen ("The Tree Where Man was born," "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," "The Snow Leopard") takes the reader on a safari into the Selous, the grandest piece of truly wild real estate left in Africa. Along for the ride in western Tanzania is the last great warden of this famous park, a direct descendant, in a way, of Frederick Cortenay Selous himself, for whom the park is named. Matthiessen is low key, unpretentious,...