The Cloud Forest
  • Published: 3 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9781846553769
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $48.99
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'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.
  • Published: 3 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9781846553769
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $48.99
Categories:

About the author

Peter Matthiessen

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.

Also by Peter Matthiessen

Are We There Yet?
Under The Mountain Wall
Lost Man's River
The Tree Where Man Was Born
An African Trilogy
Bone by Bone
Nine-Headed Dragon River
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Praise for The Cloud Forest

[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