Under the Mountain Wall - Softcover

Matthiessen, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860461638 ISBN 13: 9781860461637

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book, from the author of "At Play in the Fields of the Lord", "The Cloud Forest", "The Snow Leopard", "Nine-Headed Dragon River" and "Men's Lives", portrays the Kurelu tribe in New Guinea - an ancient, lost culture of simplicity and violence.

About this title

Review:

"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)

Book Description:

'Matthiessen is a talented writer and imaginative traveller and a man of true originality' - Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1860461638
• ISBN 13: 9781860461637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320