<strong>African Silences</strong> is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmicdepredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically... » 

African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmicdepredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this criticallyacclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he haswritten about in two previous books A Tree Where Man Was Born nominated forthe National Book Award and Sand Rivers. Through his eyes we seeelephants white rhinos gorillas and other endangered creatures of the wild.We share the drama of the journeys themselves including a hazardous crossingof the continent in a light plane. And along the way we learn of the humanlives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies and threatened bythe slow ecological catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken. «