Books by Peter Matthiessen

Baikal, the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world, contains more than 1,200 rare species of plants and animals, including the world's only ... More

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In the tradition of his earlier books, "The Snow Leopard" and "The Tree Where Man Was Born", "African Silences" chronicles Matthiessen's travels ... More

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For twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiesen crisscrossed the South American wilderness writing a thrilling narrative, filled with observations and ... More

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Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessens epic re-imagining of E. J. Watson, the legendary outlaw of the wild Florida frontier, who relentlessly drove ... More

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When Watson's son Lucius returns to the treacherous wilderness of the Everglades searching for the truth about his father's death, the coast's ... More

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In 1975, a fatal shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indians resulted in the deaths of two agents and the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, a ... More

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"Reading this book becomes an act of self-confrontation, for Peter Matthiessen has made it clear that Cesar Chavez's battle is not only for the ... More

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In this darkly compelling drama of fathers and sons, land and rapacity, murder, honor, and revenge, an "extraordinarily accomplished writer" ( ... More

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In this astonishing novel, Matthiessen speaks in the extraordinary voice of the enigmatic and dangerous E.J. Watson, whom readers first saw, ... More

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Now back in print, here is novelist Peter Matthiessen's account of his journey deep into the heart of American and Japanese Zen. Writing in the same ... More

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Collected for the first time, this anthology of Matthiessen's finest nature writings includes 13 excerpts that stand flawlessly on their own and ... More

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In 1969 Peter Matthiessen set out with the expedition led by Peter Gimbel, whose aim was to find and film underwater for the first time the most ... More

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". . . A tale of violent adventure and a parable in which modern man finds religious rebirth in the green womb of nature".--Time.

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The 1990 journey of Matthiessen, Paul Winter and a group of Russian environmentalists who traveled around Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's oldest ... More

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During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse ... More

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