Matthiessen, Peter

The snow leopard by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

120 editions published between 1978 and 2018 in 12 languages and held by 1,639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"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{u2014} 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 understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty."--Publisher information

Tigers in the snow by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

21 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,564 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of the threatened Siberian tiger as it struggles to exist in the little-populated Russian Far East

Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

20 editions published between 1997 and 2012 in English and held by 1,507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Bone by bone : a novel by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

21 editions published between 1999 and 2015 in English and held by 1,495 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A novel on a sugar baron's rise to riches by violence and murder. He is E.J. Watson, a 19th century pioneer who builds a sugar-cane empire in Florida on the back of blacks. Third volume in a trilogy which began with Killing Mister Watson

The birds of heaven : travels with cranes by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

16 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Cranes are ubiquitous in the earliest legends of the world's peoples, where they often figure as sentinels of heaven and omens of longevity and good fortune. For their great beauty and imposing size - they are the largest of all flying birds on earth - they are held near-sacred in many lands. Their broad wilderness habitat requirements make them "umbrella species": protecting them ensures that other creatures and the earth and water of the ecosystem are also protected. In addition, the enormous spans of cranes' migrations have encouraged international conservation efforts." "In The Birds of Heaven, Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many journeys in search of the world's fifteen species of cranes. From the vast taiga of Siberia's Amur basin and the Mongolian steppe, breeding grounds for the glorious red-crowned and white-naped cranes, his travels take him to India, Bhutan, China, Japan, and Korea, then on to Australia, Africa, and western Europe (where the native crane is being encouraged to return), and finally to Wisconsin, Nebraska, the Gulf Coast, and Florida, where ingenious efforts are under way to establish a nonmigratory population of the rare whooping crane. He is accompanied by erudite and passionate ornithologists and "craniacs," along with many fascinating regional people, from Mongolian nomads to Gujarati nawabs. Through their eyes as well as his own, he portrays the astonishingly tenacious cranes' struggles to survive in a rapidly developing world in which man is leaving less and less place for other creatures. He also captures the deep loss to humankind should these majestic creatures - their majesty illuminated by Robert Bateman's eloquent renderings - be permitted to disappear."--BOOK JACKET

Under the mountain wall : a chronicle of two seasons in the stone age by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

50 editions published between 1903 and 2012 in English and held by 1,421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the mountain wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd, Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid"--Page 4 of cover

Sand rivers by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

17 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and held by 1,401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts his safari to the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania

Sal si puedes (Escape if you can) : Cesar Chavez and the new American revolution by Peter Matthiessen( )

12 editions published between 2000 and 2014 in English and held by 1,197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A new postscript by the author brings the reader up to date as to the events that have unfolded since the writing of Sal Si Puedes. Ilan Stavans's insightful foreword considers the significance of Chavez's legacy for our time. Besides serving as an indispensable guide to the sixties, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez's life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency."--Jacket

Exiled in the land of the free : democracy, Indian nations, and the U.S. Constitution by Oren Lyons( Book )

3 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in English and held by 1,179 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Focuses "primarily on the Iroquois Confederacy and its relations with European nations contending for control of the New World."

At play in the fields of the lord by Peter Matthiessen( )

30 editions published between 1991 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A tale of two men's experiences with a native Indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest. Despite their separate missions, both men converge in their respect for the native culture and their zeal to protect the Indians from imminent invasion