Peter Matthiessen / The tree where man was born – Eliot Porter / The African Experience

“… They have ranged the continent from the upper Nile, south into Tanzania, north west as far as remote Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier: working with the scientists who study the habits of animals in the wild, talking to the anthropologists who seek to unravel the mysteries of man’s origins, studying the daily lives of the herdsmen and people unchanged by the passage of millennia, listening, watching, recording.
Text and photographs combine to evoke this complex and exciting land in a way which will enthral and amaze even those who know in intimately.’