Sand Rivers by Matthiessen, Peter - 1982

Toronto, Canada / New York, USA: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing ; full # line. Soft cover. Fine =. color photographs by Hugo Van Lawick. Gorgeous copy, shiny and stiff and square and looks unread, whistle-clean inside and out, **First Printing** (full # line) , only a beginning of corner curl on front wrappers keeps it from being As New, probably from shelf wear. Collectible** A great writer of Books on nature, travel, and man along with some wonderful novels. With 64 pages of "glorious photographs by Hugo Van Lawick. "A real treat... It is writing and photography of this quality that make us forget... that only this book will remain when we have finally plundered all of the African plain." -- Playboy Here is a short sample of Mattiessen's writnig taken from the first paragraph of the book as he is flying into Tanzania and leaving behind the world of London for the Old World . --- "And in the clear dawn of the next day, as the sun is born again from the Indian Ocean, lighting the dun thornbush and stone rivers of Kenya's Northern Frontier District, far below, a silence arose like memory from the turning earth and with it a promise and elation that I had rarely felt since childhood's morning.