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In the spirit of Crazy Horse
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32 editions published between 1983 and 2002 in English and held by 3,736 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An investigative account of the fatal shout-out between FBI agents and American Indians in 1975
Killing Mister Watson
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38 editions published between 1989 and 1998 in 5 languages and held by 2,896 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Novel about the man usually credited with killing Belle Starr
At play in the fields of the Lord
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57 editions published between 1965 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 2,826 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
The tree where man was born
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43 editions published between 1972 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 2,565 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In this book, two naturalists join to evoke the African experience
Wildlife in America
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30 editions published between 1959 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A history of the North American wilderness and its creatures, with lists and drawings of rare, threatened, and extinct species
Indian country
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20 editions published between 1984 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,214 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The author examines the white man's encroachment on the lands of the Miccosukee, Hopi, Cherokee, Mohawk, Yurok, Karuk, Dakota, Chumash, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute and Navajo
Sal si puedes; Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution
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23 editions published between 1969 and 2014 in English and Spanish and held by 2,060 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."--BOOK JACKET
Far Tortuga
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31 editions published between 1974 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,987 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An impressionistic novel concerns the assortment of crew members aboard a dismal schooner hunting for green sea turtles in the Caribbean
Shadow country : a new rendering of the Watson legend
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15 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,982 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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
Tigers in the snow
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23 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 1,785 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
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15 editions published between 1997 and 2011 in English and held by 1,719 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
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12 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 1,662 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
Sand rivers
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12 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and held by 1,607 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Recounts his safari to the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania
The birds of heaven : travels with cranes
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13 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,582 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
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33 editions published between 1903 and 2012 in English and held by 1,520 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"--Cover p. [4]
The snow leopard
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69 editions published between 1978 and 2012 in 9 languages and held by 1,451 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"
At play in the fields of the lord
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20 editions published between 1991 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,109 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
Men's lives : the surfmen and baymen of the South Fork
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9 editions published between 1986 and 1988 in English and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Contains primary source material
On the river Styx and other stories
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17 editions published between 1986 and 1990 in English and held by 1,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The cloud forest : a chronicle of the South American wilderness
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21 editions published between 1961 and 1988 in English and held by 1,039 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 more
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Matthiesen, Peter, 1927-
マシーセン, ピーター
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German (19) French (19) Spanish (16) Italian (11) Chinese (5) Polish (5) Swedish (3) Croatian (2) Dutch (2) Japanese (1) Covers
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