The Cloud Forest by Peter Matthiessen
For twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the course of his journey, he followed the trails of old explorers; encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the evidence of ancient ruins; and discovered a fossilized snout of a giant unknown crocodilian hidden in the depths of the jungle on the wild mountain rivers of Peru. Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of this vast world to the south, The Cloud Forest is Matthiessen's incisive, wry report of his expedition into some of the last and most exotic wild terrains in the world.Peter Cunningham was born and raised in Waterford, the place that inspired Monument, the town in Love in One Edition. The Sea and the Silence (Gemma 2010), Consequences of the Heart (Gemma 2011), and Tapes of the River Delta (Gemma 2012) are his previous Monument novels. He has written a number of thrillers, both under his own name and under pseudonyms, as well as the books Who Trespass Against Us (London, 1993), Taoiseach (London, 2004), and Capital Sins (Dublin, 2010) in the UK and Ireland. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters, Aosdana.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140095494 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140095497 |
| Title | The Cloud Forest |
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| Series | Penguin Travel Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Year published | 1987-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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