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Peter Matthiessen
African Silences
• Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 225 PAGES
In this narrative of Equatorial Africa, Matthiessen recounts several trips to The Gambia, Senegal, Zaire and the Congo Basin in search of rhinos, elephants and other endangered wildlife.
(WAF36, $13.00) |
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Are We There Yet?
• Peter Matthiessen
RELIGION •
2010 •
PAPER
• 158 PAGES
In 1982, writer Peter Muryo Matthiessen, the first dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman, traveled with Glassman to pay respects to the teachers in their lineage, some of the great living Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan. What took place was an important meeting of minds representing the past, present, and future of Zen practice, an intimate connection between ancestors and descendants marking a critical point in the Zen journey from the East to the West. This historic event was captured in the moment by the selective lens of Peter Cunningham. Matthiessen's exquisite poetic accounts of this pilgrimage, which formed a part of his book "Nine-Headed Dragon River," accompany the photos.
(JPN398, $29.95) |
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• Peter Matthiessen
LITERATURE •
1991 •
PAPER
• 373 PAGES
Set in a malarial outpost of the Amazon jungle, Matthiessen's moral thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringos: Martin Quarrier, who has come to convert the local Indians to Christianity, and Lewis Moon, a half-Indian mercenary who has been hired to kill them.
(AMZ29, $16.95) |
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Cloud Forest, A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
• Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1987 •
PAPER
• 280 PAGES
• FAVORITE
Matthiessen recounts with wit and insight a 20,000-mile journey through South America, including a marvelous wild goose chase in the Amazon, an obligatory visit to Machu Picchu and his travels in Tierra del Fuego. A deceptively straightforward travelogue, this book displays Matthiessen's unflagging sense of humor, great style and unbounded curiosity.
(SAM02, $17.00) |
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End of the Earth, Voyaging to Antarctica
• Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 242 PAGES
Here's Matthiessen on a trip to the last continent, as thoughtful, informative and provocative as ever. He describes with lyrical intensity the power of the open ocean, rugged beauty of Antarctica, and abundant wildlife at the end of the Earth. He also considers global warming and its potential impacts. A veteran of two voyages, he traveled from Ushuaia to South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula on a converted Russian research vessel.
(ANT190, $15.00) |
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Far Tortuga
• Peter Matthiessen
LITERATURE •
1988 •
PAPER
• 408 PAGES
Matthiessen's pleasurable fifth novel captures the rhythms and allure of life at sea -- and the folklore of the dying Grand Cayman turtle fishery.
(CRB236, $18.00) |
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Killing Mister Watson
• Peter Matthiessen
LITERATURE •
1991 •
PAPER
• 372 PAGES
Set at the turn of the century, this masterfully researched novel is based on the life of Edgar J. Watson, a renegade businessman and man of legend in Chokoloskee, Florida. Matthiessen tells a gripping story of frontier life in the Everglades, weaving historic news accounts and plenty of natural history into his fictional tale. The book is dedicated to the pioneer families of southwest Florida.
(FLA03, $15.95) |
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Lost Man's River
• Peter Matthiessen
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 560 PAGES
This acclaimed novel by Matthiessen continues the story of Mr. Watson in the frontier of southern Florida in the first decades of the 20th century. In part it is the story of a son's struggle to understand the mysterious death of his father, but it is also a powerful portrait of the wanderers, renegades and other eccentrics in still wild Florida.
(FLA10, $16.00) |
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Shadow Country
• Peter Matthiessen
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 892 PAGES
Winner of the 2008 National Book Award. Matthiessen revisits and reworks his tale of Florida sugarcane farmer and infamous murderer Edgar J. Watson in this reprise of his classic trilogy Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone.
(FLA72, $17.00) |
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The Snow Leopard
• Peter Matthiessen
EXPLORATION •
2008 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
• FAVORITE
The most perceptive, acutely observed and personal of all his books, Matthiessen's account of a five-week journey through Nepal with George Schaller combines their quest for the magnificent cat with a moving introduction to Buddhism and the people and culture of the Himalayas.
(NPL03, $16.00) |
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Tigers in the Snow
• Peter Matthiessen
• Maurice Hornocker
NATURAL HISTORY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 185 PAGES
A lyrical tribute to the Siberian Tiger by Peter Matthiessen. He writes movingly of tigers, their dwindling habitat and the people devoted to studying them. With color photographs, line drawings and an introduction by Hornocker (Track of the Tiger, BST19), founder of the Siberian Tiger Project.
(SIB10, $15.00) |
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
• Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
A vivid portrait of East Africa, enthralling in its masterful detail on nature and daily life. Matthiessen ranges from prehistory to modern East Africa, circa 1961, deftly combining the finest of nature writing and sensitive commentary on social and political history. In this far-ranging book, we travel with him to Maasailand, Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, the Kenyan Highlands and out into the bush to witness the animals. It's an enduring classic, fully as interesting today as when it was first published by the "New Yorker" in 1972.
(EAF27, $17.00) |
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Under the Mountain Wall, A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
• Peter Matthiessen
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1962 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
Among our finest writers on natural history and culture, Matthiessen describes his wanderings in central New Guinea with sensitivity and insight. Enormously enjoyable.
(NGA04, $19.00) |
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