Matthiessen, Peter

The snow leopard by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

111 editions published between 1978 and 2016 in 13 languages and held by 1,649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart."

Tigers in the snow by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

25 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 1,638 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 )

17 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 1,536 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 )

17 editions published between 1999 and 2015 in English and held by 1,534 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 )

14 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,476 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."--Jacket

Sand rivers by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

17 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and held by 1,421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts his safari to the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania

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

44 editions published between 1903 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,408 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

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

1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 1,189 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( )

23 editions published between 1991 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,045 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

On the river Styx and other stories by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

21 editions published between 1988 and 1993 in 3 languages and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard. This stunning collection of short stories, available for the first time in paperback, spans more than three decades of writing by one of the most acclaimed literary voices of our time