Volume 19, Number 11 & 12 · January 25, 1973
Carnage in Eden
By Cyril Connolly
The Tree Where Man Was Born
by Peter Matthiessen
Dutton, 247 pp., $17.50
The African Experience
by Eliot Porter
Dutton, 247 pp., $17.50
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
by George B. Schaller
University of Chicago, 494 pp., $12.50
This collaboration between a writer and a photographer should have one title, not two. How can we be expected to go into a bookshop and order both? So I rechristen it Peter Matthiessen and Eliot Porter, The African Experience (for that is what it is). The two men work hand in glove. Each is a master and I do most warmly recommend their joint product. There have been several outstanding books of photographs of the game reserves, but Mr. Matthiessen has written an admirable text, accurate, original, scientific, and moving.
Review, 2151 words
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