Under the Mountain Wall by Peter Matthiessen
A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise.In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid. Matthiessen observes these people in their timeless rhythm of work and play and war, of gardening and wood gathering, feasts and funerals, pig stealing and ambushes. Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen offers an exceptional account of an ancient culture on the brink of incalculable change.
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 | 9780140252705 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140252703 |
| Title | Under the Mountain Wall |
| Author | Peter Matthiessen |
| Series | Classic Nature Penguin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1987-01-06 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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