The Cloud Forest
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Beschrijving
The result is an incisive and marvellously well-observed journal by a born writer and naturalist, a voyage of exploration among the people, places and fading wildlife of this most exotic and mysterious of continents.
[A] passionately observed and argued blend of natural history, ethnography, philosophy and mysticism written in a style for which the closest comparison is that of Joseph Conrad
A completely delightful book... An extraordinary perception... Nowhere in
The Cloud Forest
did I come across a false note
His book deserves as long as life as the records of such earlier naturalists as Darwin, Bates and Hudson
Probably the best writer in America
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.