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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 Format:Book
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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:158
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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 Format:CD Pages:10
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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 Format:CD Pages:12
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:Paperback
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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" In Bone by Bone...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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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 Format:Book
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Rachel Carson's lyrical...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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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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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 Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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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 Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:560
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:304
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:892
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Peter Matthiessen
ISBN:9780679640196
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 Format:Hardcover Pages:892
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:CD
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Peter Matthiessen
ISBN:9781441710635
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 Format:CD
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:276
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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 Format:CD
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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 Format:Hardback
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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 Format:Hardback
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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 Format:Paperback
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:224
"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 In legend...more details Format:Prebound
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:688
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:522
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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 Format:Paperback Pages:385
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Peter Matthiessen;Robert L Bateman
ISBN:9780374199449
A leading naturalist and writer travels the globe in search of a prized-and vanishing-bird Cranes are ubiquitous in the earliest legends of the world's peoples...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:352
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Peter Matthiessen;McKay McKay JenkinsJenkins
ISBN:9780375702723
"Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Matthiessen is a great travel companion. . . . His knowledge of plants...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Peter Matthiessen;Pico Iyer
ISBN:9780143105510
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayasa now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Peter Matthiessen;Maurice Hornocker MauriceHornocker
ISBN:9780865475960
No more than a few thousand tigers survive in pockets of Asia, a continent they once roamed far and wide. The largest of them, the Siberian tiger...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Matthiessen Peter
ISBN:9780857050151
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country re-imagines the legend of the Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson...more details Format:Hardback Pages:912
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Matthiessen Peter
ISBN:9780857050007
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION, a powerful, epic tale of America s rise and descent, from the Civil War to the Great Depression. Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:912