An account of Matthiessen's travels in East Africa in the early 1970s from the Upper Nile south through Tanzania and northwest to Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier which describes the wildlife and game reserves and the archaeological sites en route.
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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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