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1) The snow leopard

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Matthiessen, Peter

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Penguin classics
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English

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street Journal
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)
In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan...

2) In paradise: a novel

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Matthiessen, Peter

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English

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"From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--

3) The tree where man was born

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Matthiessen, Peter

Series

Penguin classics

Pub. Date

2010.

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English

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"This vivid portrayal of east Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the day it was first published in 1972. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to portray the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years. From the daily lives of wild herdsmen and drama of predator kills to the field biologists investigating wild creatures and the anthropologists seeking humanity's...

4) At play in the fields of the Lord

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Matthiessen, Peter

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English

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The timely story of the forces of change that converge on a small tribe of Niaruna Indians living in the heart of the Amazonian rain forest.

5) In the spirit of Crazy Horse

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Matthiessen, Peter

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English

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Examines the 1975 confrontation between Indians and FBI agents that led to the conviction of Indian leader Leonard Peltier.

6) Shadow country: a new rendering of the Watson legend

Author

Matthiessen, Peter

Publisher

Modern Library

Pub. Date

[2008]

Language

English

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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 inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E.J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.--From publisher description.

7) Lost Man's River: Watson Series, Book 2

Author

Matthiessen, Peter

Series

Watson trilogy volume 2

Publisher

Recorded Books, Inc

Pub. Date

1998

Language

English

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Critically-acclaimed novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen deftly weaves together the fortunes and tragedies of Florida Everglades folk in this foreboding thriller. Haunted by the legacy of his father's violent reputation and brutal death, historian Lucius Watson seeks to understand the man behind the legend. In 1910, an enraged mob of neighbors gunned down murder suspect E.J. Watson-each claiming it was self-defense. Over four decades later,...

8) Shadow Country

Author

Matthiessen, Peter

Series

Shadow Country Trilogy

Publisher

Blackstone Publishing

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

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Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen's reimagining of the legend of E. J. Watson, the Everglades sugarcane planter and notorious outlaw of the wild Florida frontier. Vividly capturing the American hinterlands at the turn of the twentieth century, it traces the story of Watson through eyewitness perspectives as he drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him.

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9) Bone by Bone: Watson Series, Book 3

Author

Matthiessen, Peter

Series

Watson trilogy volume 3

Publisher

Recorded Books, Inc

Pub. Date

1999

Language

English

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One of a very few National Book Award honorees to be nominated for fiction and nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen creates a curious blend of both in this tragic prequel to Killing Mister Watson and Lost Man's River. An amazing novel in its own right, Bone by Bone caps the trilogy featuring the enigmatic E.J. Watson. During the Reconstruction Era, Edgar Watson grew up in the South at the mercy of a brutal alcoholic father and a vindictive mother. Witnessing...