Reviews for Tanzania in maps: graphic perspectives of a developing country

The average rating for Tanzania in maps: graphic perspectives of a developing country based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-10-07 00:00:00 Renate Schenkeli In 1976, I took the TanZam Railway along the edge of the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania and was amazed at the amount of wildlife there. This book tells of Peter Matthiessen's trip there only a few years later (1979) as part of an arranged safari with Brian Nicholson, the former game warden there, and about 10-15 other European friends and Tanzanian and Kenyan support staff. The book includes pictures by Hugo van Lawick. They don't add as much to this book as Eliot Porter's did to THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN. The book brings out the place and the members of the group, both Europeans and the African support staff. The last three chapters are about a 10-day foot safari that Brian Nicholson and Peter Matthiessen did with about 5 support staff. Nicholson and Matthiessen are often at odds about how they think wildlife management might be done, and the author brings out their differences clearly, but also his growing admiration for Brian Nicholson. This book does not seem as good as his two other African wildlife books but it does bring out this place well and the interactions of this group during the month that they were in the Selous.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-06 00:00:00 Brenda Soto I would read any of Matthiessen's writings, fiction and non-fiction. This is his account of a trip in 1979 to the Selous Game park in Tanzania. The content is familiar, the prose is lovely. Here's an example: 'Standing barefoot on white African sands, smelling the damp algal smells, the mineral rot of driftwood, I studied the tracks of [animals], the ancient hand-prints and serpentine tail-furrow made by crocodile … the air was filled with engaging dung smells and the protest of hippos ...'. Lavish full-colour photos.