Peter Matthiessen
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 grapplewith his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Watson trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A son in Florida seeks the truth about his father, a hunter executed by a lynch mob. History has it that Edgar Watson was a cold-blooded killer, but was he really so evil? As he talks to oldtimers, Lucius Watson learns about the smugglers and outlaws who populated the Everglades early this century.
9) Bone by bone
Author
Series
Watson trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
10) The snow leopard
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"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, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest, to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist...
11) Far Tortuga
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
An impressionistic novel concerns the assortment of crew members aboard a dismal schooner hunting for green sea turtles in the Caribbean
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of his acclaimed Trout: an illustrated history, renowned naturalist, artist, and fisherman James Prosek captures 35 of the most pursued fish -- from striped bass to tarpon, swordfish to bonefish-- as well as many creatures that share these marine ecosystems-- from lobsters to shells to beach plants-- through rich watercolors painted specifically for this handsome volume. Ocean fishes is James Prosek's personal tribute to marine beauty...