Peter Matthiessen is one of the most acute observers of the natural world. This is his detailed and perceptive account of his travels in East Africa, from the Upper Nile in the little-known Sudan, south through Tanzania, and north-west to remote Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier. He describes the wildlife and the game reserves of the Serengeti, the Maasai Mara and the Ngorongoro Crater, and the archaeological sites at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in the Rift Valley. In a new printing of the 1972 edition, Peter Matthiessen’s text is accompanied by the images of Eliot Porter, one of the early masters of colour photography. Together text and pictures evoke the richness of Africa in details of human and natural history, and in the daily lives of herdsmen and stone-age aborigines. The book is an enduring record of the many fascinating animals and landscapes of East Africa.
