Publication

1979 - Grove Press, New York, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

63,000 words, Guess

Page Count

252 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPR6070.R56 C35 1979

Description

This novel interweaves the perspectives of Jeremy, an engineer who leaves small-town Maine in 1899 to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa, and finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions killing his men in nightly attacks; and Max, an American ethnobotanist who travels to Rwanda in 2000 in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical, but finds herself shadowing a family of gorillas whose survival is threatened by a violent rebel group from nearby Congo.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Grove Press outrider book -- B-432

Other Editions

  • Cain's bookGrove Press1979

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