The Cloud Forest (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Matthiessen
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Nature notes and travel
- Time of Work: November, 1959-April, 1960
- Setting: The Amazon jungle, the Andean cloud forest and sierra, Tierra del Fuego
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Nature, Forests or forestry, Jungles or rain forests, Amazon, South America or South Americans, Wildlife, Naturalists, Wilderness, Fossils
- Locales: Amazon, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Critical Evaluation:
If nature books are not widely read today, one reason may be that among naturalists the scientist has taken precedence over the poet. Good nature writing is more than a process of observation, classification, and reporting, and our best natural historians from William Bartram on have infused their work with the larger vision which gives grace and wonder to the particularities of landscapes and things. But for every Henry David Thoreau, W. H. Hudson, John Burroughs, John Muir, or Rachel Carson to whom we can point, there have been scores of other writers...
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