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1	The Snow Leopard more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 'In 1973, [Matthiessen] journeyed with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen is a student of Zen Buddhism and for him ... see all copies from £1.56! new only from £9.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	In the Spirit of Crazy Horse more books like this by Peter Matthiessen After eight years in the American courts, this book examines the shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indian activists which erupted on a reservation in South Dakota. The confrontation ended with the death of three men, two of them FBI officers. Eventually, four Indians were indicted on murder charges. One of them, Leonard Peltier, is still ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £10.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Tree Where Man Was Born more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 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, Maasai Mara and the Ngorongoro Crater, and the archaeological sites at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli in the Rift Valley. During these travels he ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £9.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	At Play in the Fields of the Lord more books like this by Peter Matthiessen Martin Quarrier is an earnest, well-meaning, but seriously misguided missionary who wants to convert an Amazonian Indian tribe to Christianity. Lewis Moon is an American Indian turned mercenary who has been hired to wipe them out. Matthiessen's now classic novel is not only an engrossing story but a protest against the missionary urge to inflict ... see all copies from £1.76! new only from £5.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend more books like this by Peter Matthiessen This landmark one-volume reworking of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy--"Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River," and "Bone by Bone"--reveals one of America's finest writes at the peak of his career. see all copies from £23.66! new only from £26.61!
6	Far Tortuga more books like this by Peter Matthiessen An old Caribbean schooner and her crew, dreaming of a simple island past, drift south across the oceans to the fishing grounds of their forefathers. Before the "Lillias Eden" and her nine doomed men there lies Far Tortuga, a speck off the coast of Nicaragua - a treacherous fishing ground. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £8.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Killing Mister Watson more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 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 of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community and who very possibly had a criminal past. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £5.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Lost Man's River more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 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. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £10.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Bone by Bone more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 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. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £2.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	African silences more books like this by Peter Matthiessen In the tradition of his earlier books, "The Snow Leopard" and "The Tree Where Man Was Born", "African Silences" chronicles Matthiessen's travels through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast and Zaire in search of the "forest elephant" and other disappearing animal species in the 1970s and to Zaire, Central African Republic, and Gabon in 1986. While ... see all copies from £5.29! new only from £7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Birds of heaven : travels with cranes more books like this by Peter Matthiessen The story of a remarkable journey by one of the world's greatest nature writers across five continents to track down every species of the crane family. Once regarded as messengers from heaven, cranes form part of the ancient myth and legend of every country in which they appear. Today, they evoke the retreating wilderness and the vanishing habits ... see all copies from £4.75! new only from £7.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Men's lives more books like this by Peter Matthiessen Available for the first time in a text-only edition, Peter Matthiessen's acclaimed Men's Lives should enjoy the kind of success that greeted John McPhee's Pine Barrens and William Warner's Beautiful Swimmers. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £11.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Cloud Forest more books like this by Peter Matthiessen Matthiessen chronicles his travels through the South American wilderness: the Amazon rain forest, Machu Picchu, Tierra del Fuego--200,000 miles in all. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Wildlife in America more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 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 great and small species of our land. "Should be the number one source volume for everyone who embraces the philosophy of conservation".--Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrations throughout. see all copies from £5.46! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	End of the Earth: Expeditions to South Georgia and Antarctica more books like this by Peter Matthiessen, Stephen Byers (Editor) 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. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
16	Sand Rivers more books like this by Peter Matthiessen see all copies from £2.02! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 more books like this by Peter Matthiessen In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway--guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling "The Snow Leopard," "Nine-Headed ... see all copies from £4.24! new only from £13.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark more books like this by Peter Matthiessen Bestselling author Peter Matthiessen takes readers on an expedition to find the most dangerous predator on Earth--the legendary great white shark. On a trek that lasts 17 months and takes him from the Caribbean to the whaling grounds off South Africa, across the Indian Ocean to the South Australian coast, Matthiessen records the beauties of ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.29! \| first editions
19 view cover	North American Indians more books like this by George Catlin, Peter Matthiessen (Editor) From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin, American ethnologist, travelled extensively among the native peoples of North America - from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs and ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £9.32! \| first editions
20	Indian Country more books like this by Peter Matthiessen A nonfiction book that considers the dissolution of Native American culture, which Matthiessen sees as being both inevitable and brutal. see all copies from £2.01! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Under the Mountain Wall more books like this by Peter Matthiessen This book is a portrait of the Kurelu tribe in New Guinea. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £7.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	East of Lo Monthang more books like this by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas Laird (Photographer) Noted novelist and nature writer Peter Matthiessen explores the Kingdom of Lo in Nepal. Closed to the world until 1991, it dominated the Kali Gandaki River trade between India and Tibet. In 1992 Matthiessen and Thomas Laird traveled into the valley--the first Westerners in 30 years to explore this area of the Himalayas. see all copies from £14.33! new only from £27.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Tigers in the snow more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 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. Now these are under threat due to the intensified poaching and the destruction of habitat that has followed upon the collapse of the USSR. Peter Matthiessen ... see all copies from £4.37! new only from £8.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica more books like this by Peter Matthiessen 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, the islands off Antarctica's northern ice shelf, and to that second most remote place on earth, South Georgia Island, "the last outpost in a great emptiness of ocean." ... see all copies from £4.77! new only from £5.46!
25	The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness more books like this by Peter Matthiessen Matthiessen chronicles his travels through the South American wilderness: the Amazon rain forest, Machu Picchu, Tierra del Fuego--200,000 miles in all. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £45.06! \| signed copies \| first editions

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