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Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he has published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Mr. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer has resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the... Read More
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African Silences
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $13.00
African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. Matthiessen explores the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies. He finds an entire community threatened by ravaged land and wildlife, a catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken.
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Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $13.00
African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. Matthiessen explores the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies. He finds an entire community threatened by ravaged land and wildlife, a catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken.
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 3, 1991
Price: $14.95
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Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 3, 1991
Price: $14.95
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Bone by Bone
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 18, 2000
Price: $14.95
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Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 18, 2000
Price: $14.95
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Far Tortuga
A Novel
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1988
Price: $16.95
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A Novel
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1988
Price: $16.95
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Killing Mister Watson
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 30, 1991
Price: $14.95
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Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 30, 1991
Price: $14.95
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Lost Man's River
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $16.00
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Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $16.00
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Men's Lives
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1988
Price: $17.00
An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore. Read more >
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1988
Price: $17.00
An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore. Read more >
On the River Styx
And Other Stories
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 30, 1991
Price: $15.00
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.
"These compelling tales of elemental fear and ever-pressing silence culminate in the great, dark and desperate final story, a masterful piece... Read more >
And Other Stories
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 30, 1991
Price: $15.00
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.
"These compelling tales of elemental fear and ever-pressing silence culminate in the great, dark and desperate final story, a masterful piece... Read more >
The Peter Matthiessen Reader
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Introduction by Mckay Jenkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $14.00
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Written by Peter Matthiessen
Introduction by Mckay Jenkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $14.00
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Shadow Country
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $16.00
2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall... Read more >
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $16.00
2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall... Read more >
Shadow Country
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $40.00
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the... Read more >
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $40.00
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the... Read more >
Shadow Country
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $16.00
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Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 19, 2008
Price: $16.00
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