Matthiessen, Peter

Tigers in the snow by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

21 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 1,615 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

17 editions published between 1999 and 2015 in English and held by 1,547 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

Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

17 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 1,545 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

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

16 editions published between 2001 and 2010 in English and German and held by 1,504 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 1,432 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 )

47 editions published between 1903 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,429 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

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

22 editions published between 1991 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,044 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 )

23 editions published between 1986 and 1993 in 3 languages and held by 1,019 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

Men's lives : the surfmen and baymen of the South Fork by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

17 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in English and Japanese and held by 1,015 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains primary source material

The cloud forest : a chronicle of the South American wilderness by Peter Matthiessen( Book )

25 editions published between 1961 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 951 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Peter Matthiessen's report of his expedition crisscrossing 10,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and back. He followed the trails of old explorers, encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the evidence of ancient ruins, and discovered fossils in the depths of the Peruvian jungle