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  • The Snow Leopard

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)**In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

    The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement

    by Peter Matthiessen, Martin Garbus ...
    An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In ParadiseOn a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Men's Lives

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • At Play in the Fields of the Lord

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Lost Man's River

    Shadow Country Trilogy (2)

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Series series Vintage International
    When his novel Killing Mister Watson was published in 1990, the reviews were extraordinary. It was heralded as "a marvel of invention . . . a virtuoso performance" (The New York Times Book Review) and a "novel [that] stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now Peter Matthiessen brings us the second novel in his Watson trilogy, a project ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • On the River Styx

    And Other Stories

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.This stunning collection of short stories, available for the first time in paperback, spans more than three decades of ... Read more

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  • Nine-Headed Dragon River

    Zen Journals 1969-1982

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling The Snow Leopard, Nine-Headed Dragon River reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Killing Mister Watson

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cloud Forest

    A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Series series Classic, Nature, Penguin
    A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In ParadisePeter Matthiessen crisscrossed 20,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and back. He followed the trails of old explorers, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Under the Mountain Wall

    A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Series series Classic, Nature, Penguin
    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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Tree Where Man Was Born

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In ParadiseA finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)

    Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen’s panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si ... Read more

    $23.99 USD