# African Silences

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- Book: [African Silences](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-matthiessen/african-silences) ([African Silences.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-matthiessen/african-silences.md))
- Authors: [Peter Matthiessen](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-matthiessen)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-102-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1992-06-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on...