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Original Title:	The Tree Where Man Was Born: The African Experience
ISBN:	0140239340 (ISBN13: 9780140239348)
Series:	The African Trilogy #1
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for The Sciences (1973)

The Tree Where Man Was Born (The African Trilogy #1)

Peter Matthiessen

Paperback | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 731 Users | 78 Reviews

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I purchased this book in anticipation of a journey to Africa. This chronicle is nonfiction, but it reads with the depth and intensity of poetry. Even though this book was written about the author’s experience and impressions of Africa on a series of trips in the 1960’s his insights remain timeless. The politics of Africa are convulsive and the boundaries of countries dynamic, but much of Tanzania and Kenya lands have been preserved and remain essentially the same as when Matthiessen visited 50 years ago. His descriptions of natural occurrences like the systematic attack of wild dogs on a new born zebra made me want to beg him to stop. But, he gives life to the landscape and all the animals that dwell there with same brilliant mastery of the language and pulls the reader forward. He does speak of mans beginnings as the title suggests, “Baboons in silhouette looked like early hominids hurling wild manic howling at my head.” Even though the information about the descent of mankind is fascinating, for me it is Matthiessen’s incredible descriptive powers that give magic to a land that is often harsh and unforgiving to man and beast. Speaking about Kilimanjaro he said, “The glacier glistens. A distant snow peak scours the mind, but a snow peak in the tropics draws the heart o a fine shimmering painful point of joy.”
I will read this book again when I return from Africa to compare notes and take lessons from a truly gifted writer.

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Title	:	The Tree Where Man Was Born (The African Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Peter Matthiessen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1995 by Penguin Books (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Travel. Nonfiction. History. Environment. Nature. Eastern Africa. Tanzania. Science

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Ratings: 3.98 From 731 Users | 78 Reviews

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Couldn't finish this one - not what I thought it would be. I got about a third of the way through and gave up. Since it was written back in 1972, I'm not sure the scientific information on early man is accurate given more recent discoveries. Also, I get tired quickly of descriptions of animals killing and feeding.

Weaving the natural sciences' language and terminology, ethnological data, observation, and reflection, Matthiessen creates a tapestry of East Africa as well as the human consciousness. His words and observations are as timely and thought provoking now as the were nearly fifty years ago as mankind faces the species threatening Sixth Extinction.



The Tree Where Man Was Born is a series of belle lettres essays on various aspects of natural history and anthropology in northern Tanzania (with a bit of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Kenya thrown in). It is good for its time, but it was Peter Matthiessen's blessing and curse to live in a time before Barry Lopez, who surpassed him in every possible way (blessing, because his star was not outshined, but cursed, because he was never able to enjoy the master's works). Unlike Lopez's works, I felt that this

I got this book to read before and during a trip to Tanzania. Since it was nonfiction and written 30 years ago I expected it wouldn't be completely applicable to my contemporary experiences in Tz. This beautifully written book however, truly captured the feel of the place in a way no other book I have read on Tz ever has. I highly recommend it for the descriptive passages and intensity of the writing.

I purchased this book in anticipation of a journey to Africa. This chronicle is nonfiction, but it reads with the depth and intensity of poetry. Even though this book was written about the authors experience and impressions of Africa on a series of trips in the 1960s his insights remain timeless. The politics of Africa are convulsive and the boundaries of countries dynamic, but much of Tanzania and Kenya lands have been preserved and remain essentially the same as when Matthiessen visited 50

This one's a mixed bag, with long sections describing the ethnology of the various tribes and peoples in places totally obscure to me, which I found tough to follow. Am I glad though, that I did not give up on the book after the brutally lengthy third chapter, but grudgingly gave it another shot after a few weeks hiatus. For the following few chapters on the Serengeti and Masai Mara were amongst the best nature writing I have had the pleasure of reading. The author shows why he was so highly