The Cloud Forest

Peter Matthiessen

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Harvill Secker
03 September 2009

Travel & holiday; Travel writing

'Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition' - Stephen Jay Gould

Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and vast skies of Patagonia.

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.

By: Peter Matthiessen
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781846553769
ISBN 10: 1846553768
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 September 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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[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 * Independent * A completely delightful book... An extraordinary perception... Nowhere in The Cloud Forest did I come across a false note * New York Times * His book deserves as long as life as the records of such earlier naturalists as Darwin, Bates and Hudson * New York Herald Tribune * Probably the best writer in America -- Martin Cruz Smith

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