num_pages: 213
description: In late 1979, the writer and naturalist Peter Matthiessen and the wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick joined a safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the largest yet least-known strongholds of wild animals left on earth. Sand Rivers is their beautiful account of a remarkable trip into this quintessential East African wilderness.
language: English
title: Sand Rivers
titlecomplete: Sand Rivers
genres: Animals, Nature, Environment, Science, Nonfiction, Travel, Tanzania, Africa
ratings_count: 115
series: The African Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: John Burroughs Medal
publisher: Viking