The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (Penguin travel library) (Classic, Nature, Penguin) (Penguin Nature Classics)

by Peter Matthiessen

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A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
 
Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and back. He followed the trails of old explorers, encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the evidence of ancient ruins, and discovered fossils in the depths of the Peruvian jungle. Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of...Read more
  • ISBN10 0140095497
  • ISBN13 9780140095494
  • Publish Date 29 January 1987 (first published 9 October 1961)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 26 October 2004
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Group
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English