Books by Peter Matthiessen

In 1973 Mathiessen journeyed wioth George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wiild blue sheep of the ... More

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After eight years in the American courts, this book examines the shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indian activists which erupted on a ... More

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This landmark one-volume reworking of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy--"Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River," and "Bone by Bone"--reveals one of ... More

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Set in a malarial outpost of the South American jungle, Matthiessen's electrifying moral thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringos: ... More

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This volume gives an illustrated account of Peter Matthiessen's travels in East Africa from the Sudan, through Uganda and Kenya to Tanzania. He ... More

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Working with the noted wildlife biologist and photographer Hornocker, Matthiessen recounts his travels into the Russian Far East and Manchuria in ... More

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Nine men aboard an old Caribbean schooner drift in search of the fishing grounds of their forefathers, to find only a modern world in which they have ... More

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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 ... More

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In this magnificent novel, which is the conclusion to the celebrated Watson trilogy, E.J. Watson tells his own story, through his turbulent life, to ... More

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In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the ... More

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Matthiessen's latest novel, his first since Far Tortuga, is based on the real events of the violent career of Edgar J. Watson, who came to the ... More

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Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the ... More

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A sequel to "Killing Mister Watson", this is the continuing story of Lucius Watson and his obsession with learning the truth about his father. Set in ... More

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Matthiessen's first collection of short stories and his first book of new fiction since Far Tortuga, On the River Styx spans the acclaimed career of ... More

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Bestselling author Peter Matthiessen takes readers on an expedition to find the most dangerous predator on Earth--the legendary great white shark. On ... More

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After winning an eight year legal battle, here is the controversial book that powerfully sheds new light on the plight of Native Americans. ... 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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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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This classic history of the rare, threatened, and extinct animals of North America is a dramatic chronicle of man's role in the disappearance of ... 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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The paperback edition of the widely reviewed, elegantly written book by bestselling author Peter Matthiessen about his encounters with American and ... More

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By the author of "The Snow Leopard", "The Tree Where Man Was Born" and "On the River Styx", this novel is based around the circumstances of the death ... 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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