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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 timeless rhythms of work and play, of warriorship, feasting and funerals.
In Under the Mountain Wall Matthiessen illuminates the lives of the Kurelu with respect and sympathy, capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow Mountains.
In Under the Mountain Wall Matthiessen illuminates the lives of the Kurelu with respect and sympathy, capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow Mountains.
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"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" (William Styron)
"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" (Stephen Jay Gould)
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"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" (Stephen Jay Gould)
'Matthiessen is a talented writer and imaginative traveller and a man of true originality' - Independent
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- PublisherPeter Smith Pub Inc
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0844663042
- ISBN 13 9780844663043
- BindingHardcover
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