Peter Matthiessen

Under the Mountain Wall

A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea

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Produktbeschreibung

A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise. In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody Expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the Mountain Wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid. Matthiessen observes these people in their timeless rhythm of work and play and war, of gardening and wood gathering, feasts and funerals, pig stealing and ambushes. Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist and novelist, Matthiessen offers an exceptional account of an ancient culture on the brink of incalculable change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780140252705
• ISBN-10: 0140252703
• Artikelnr.: 22409213

Autorenporträt

Peter Matthiessen was the cofounder of the Paris Review and is the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Indian Country, and The Snow Leopard, winner of the National Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Howard Frank Mosher
From the Lonely Land
Athabasca Brigade
The Red Cliffs of Amisk
Father Moraud
From Open Horizons
Stream of the Past
Song of the North
The Maker of Dreams
Beyond the Ranges
From Listening Point
Laughing Loon
King's Point
The Portage
From Runes of the North
Ghost Camps of the North
Fond du Lac
Spell of the Yukon
From the Singing Wilderness
Campfires
Pine Knots
Northern Lights
Timber Wolves
Flying In
The Way of a Canoe
From Wilderness Days
The Feel of Spring