Peter Matthiessen

Are We There Yet?: A Zen Journey Through Space and Time (Book)

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African Trilogy (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781860467882

This volume contains three pieces of travel writing by Peter Matthiessen, who joined a number of expeditions to Africa in the 1970s and 1980s - "The Tree Where Man Was Born"...more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781582436302

The journey of Buddhism over centuries, from India to China and then to Japan, is the stuff of mythology. But now, in our own time, we have witnessed and documented its historic crossing of the Pacific and its subsequent evolution in the Americas and Europe.
In 1982...more details
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780679737414

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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433299889

Set in the South American jungle, this thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringosone who has come to convert the Indians to Christianity...more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433299896

Set in the South American jungle, this thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringosone who has come to convert the Indians to Christianity...more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433299926

Set in the South American jungle, this thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringosone who has come to convert the Indians to Christianity...more details
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Birds Of Heaven, The (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433299919

Set in the South American jungle, this thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringos, one who has come to convert the Indians to Christianity and one who has been hired to kill them....more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780099447047

Once regarded as messengers from heaven, presaging longevity and good fortune, cranes appear in the ancient myth and legend of many cultures. Today...more details
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Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780140265132

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Bone by Bone (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780375701818

"Watson's voice is an artistic triumph. . . Bone by Bone] may well come to be regarded as a classic." --"San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"
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Bone By Bone (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781860466687

The last book in the Mr Watson trilogy, it charts his rise as an entrepreneurial sugarcane farmer in the wilds of the Everglades, and brings to life an anti-hero possessing both a complex character and profound humanity....more details
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Cloud Forest,The (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780099449928

Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia...more details
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Cloud Forest (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780140255072

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Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780618872763

For environmentally critical times, Courage for the Earth is a centennial appreciation of Rachel Carson's brave life and transformative writing
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End Of The Earth (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780792250593

The author recounts his voyage through the islands around Antarctica, describing the region's wildlife as well as the region itself while sharing historical information about the pioneers and adventurers who preceded him....more details
Format:Hardcover Pages:288

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End Of The Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780792268369

Now in a paperback edition, America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-of-beyond voyage to the world's most unforgiving land...more details
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Endocrine Disrupter Risk Assessment: Testing and Prediction Methods (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780470932094

Release Date: 06 February 2013
This book describes methodology and applications for endocrine disrupter toxicity testing, an issue of considerable urgency, because of international regulatory authorities currently considering such testing schemes. The coverage examines major animal groups for sensitivity to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)...more details
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Far Tortuga (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780394756677

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Far Tortuga (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781860463143

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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Part A: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433288586

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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Part B: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433290824

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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433288593

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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433288623

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Killing Mister Watson (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780679734055

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Lost Man's River (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780679735649

In this darkly compelling drama of fathers and sons, land and rapacity, murder, honor, and revenge, an "extraordinarily accomplished writer" (Philadelphia Inquirer) returns to the primeval landscape of the Florida Everglades...more details
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Lost Man's River (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781860465802

The story of Lucius Watson and his obsession with learning the truth about his father - a man branded a murderer and then himself savagely killed by a score of vigilantes....more details
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Men's Lives (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780394755601

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Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780976670865

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Nine-headed Dragon River (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781570623677

Peter Matthiessen tells the story of his quest for spiritual roots, culminating in his 1982 pilgrimage to Japan. He describes his early Zen experiences intertwined with his experience of his wife's terminal illness...more details
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On the River Styx: And Other Stories (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780679728528

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Shadow Country Part B: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433287657

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Shadow Country, part 1: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433278945

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Shadow Country, Part 2: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433287664

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Shadow Country, Part A: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433278938

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Shadow Country. Peter Matthiessen (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780857381309

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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780812980622

2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone-was conceived as one vast mysterious novel...more details
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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781433278976

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Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780679640196

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SNOW LEOPARD (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780099771111

An account of the author's search for the rare snow leopard, travelling on foot from Kathmandu to the remote Crystal Mountain, high in the Himalayas by way of Annapurna. What began as an expedition became...more details
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The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710628

Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of South America, The Cloud Forest is Matthiessens incisive, wry report of his expedition into some of the last and most exotic wild terrain in the world....more details
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The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710635

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The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710598

Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of this vast world to the south, The Cloud Forest is Matthiessens incisive...more details
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The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (CD)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710604

Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of this vast world to the south, The Cloud Forest is Matthiessens incisive...more details
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The Tree Where Man Was Born (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780140239348

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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710673

Peter Matthiessen skillfully and magically brings East Africa to vivid life: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers, the exotic animals and breathtaking landscapes...more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710680

Peter Matthiessen skillfully and magically brings East Africa to vivid life: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers, the exotic animals and breathtaking landscapes...more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710710

Peter Matthiessen skillfully and magically brings East Africa to vivid life: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers, the exotic animals and breathtaking landscapes...more details
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The Tree Where Man Was Born (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710703

In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa vividly to life....more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780143106241

A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by the National Book Award-winning author of "The Snow Leopard," now with a new introduction by Jane Goodall.
A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972...more details
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Tigers In The Snow (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781441710741

In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen combines nature and travel writing to skillfully and magically bring East Africa to vivid life: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers...more details
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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781860466779

There are no more than a few thousand tigers surviving in pockets of Asia. The largest of these, the Siberian tiger, is today almost entirely confined to the little-populated Russian Far East...more details
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Tree Where Man Was Born, The (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781860463747

This volume gives an illustrated account of Peter Matthiessen's travels in East Africa from the Sudan, through Uganda and Kenya to Tanzania. He describes the wildlife and the game reserves of the Serengeti...more details
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Tree Where Man Was Born (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781417703616

Under the Mountain Wall a Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age (Book)

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Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9781245530439

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Under The Mountain Wall (Book)

Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780099448655

In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961 which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible...more details
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Ancient Futures (Book)

Helena Norberg-Hodge;Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780871566430

This gripping portrait of the rapidly evolving socioeconomic life of Ladakh - the Western Himalayan land known as "Little Tibet" - offers crucial lessons in sustainable development as its people attempt to balance growth and technology with cultural values. This account moves from the author's first visit in idyllic...more details
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Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes (Book)

Peter Matthiessen;George Bateman RobertArchibald

ISBN:9780613922852

"You don't have to be a 'craniac' . . . to appreciate this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good as it gets." --"Chicago Tribune
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (Book)

Peter Matthiessen;Martin MatthiessenGarbus

ISBN:9780140144567

"A giant of a book. Indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent."--"The Los Angeles Times Book Review." Matthiessen's chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists in 1975....more details
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North American Indians (Book)

George Catlin;Peter Matthiessen

ISBN:9780142437506

George Catlin's masterwork - a rich and unique tribute to a lost way of life

From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America - from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota...more details
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Peter Matthiessen Reader (Book)

Peter Matthiessen;McKay McKay JenkinsJenkins

ISBN:9781417708987

Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)

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Peter Matthiessen;Ilan Stavans

ISBN:9780520225848

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 Sal Si Puedes...more details
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Snow Leopard (Book)

Peter Matthiessen;Edward Hoagland

ISBN:9781417637515