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	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Collecting Peter Matthiessen
		For four decades, Peter Matthiessen has been carving out a unique place in American letters and putting together a body of work that is unparalleled in its range and diversity and in its combination of literary and social impact.
		In the early Fifties, Matthiessen was a member of the "second wave" of American expatriate writers to settle in Paris, after the "Lost Generation" of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein and Pound.
		Matthiessen's vision has not only shaped his own writing, it has helped to shape the body of American literature for the past 40 years and, because his concerns have been so pointedly on-target, it seems inevitable that his effect will be felt far into the future.
	www.lopezbooks.com /articles/matthies.html (1760 words)

	Books by Peter Matthiessen - Biography and Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Matthiessen's now classic novel is not only an engrossing story but a protest against the missionary urge to inflict "civilized" gods and ways of life on "primitive" tribes--an eloquent plea for respect for the beliefs and ethos of others.
		Peter Matthiessen's hero, Lucius Watson, is the son of the main character in his previous novel, "Killing Mister Watson".
		Peter Matthiessen writes about his search for a spiritual element in Zen that will be meaningful in his own life, and in the process he expresses his deep interest in and appreciation for the natural world.
	www.biblio.com /author_biographies/2045287/Peter_Matthiessen.html (1104 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
		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.
		Peter Matthiessen’s lyrical and illuminating work in the Watson narrative has been praised highly by such contemporaries as Saul Bellow, William Styron, and W. Merwin.
		Matthiessen’s integrity as an artist that he felt compelled to return to the Watson material to produce this work and satisfy his original vision….a multifaceted work that can be read variously or simultaneously as a psychological novel, a historical novel, a morality tale, a political allegory, or a mystery.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679640196 (942 words)

	Peter Matthiessen, VENT Leader - birding tours, birding cruises - Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
		Peter Matthiessen is one of America's leading nature writers and novelists.
		Peter's many books have dealt with a tremendous array of subjects, but throughout all of them, both his non-fiction and fiction, there is the theme of man and his relation to the natural world.
		Peter is a lifelong naturalist with keen powers of observation.
	www.ventbird.com /leader/peter_matthiessen (274 words)

	Peter Matthiessen, Panelist - January 2006 Key West Literary Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in New York City in 1927, Peter Matthiessen has been equally driven, all his life, by the beck of distant places and the call to write.
		Behind the language Peter has chosen to express the impermanence of the universe, and the wheels of life and death spinning the natural systems of the Earth into oblivion, there might well lie a seething rage at all that is unjust in the world.
		A lifelong activist, Peter has been driven by the immediacy of what he has seen (and often the outrage of it) and—bearing witness—he has translated his experience into a very personal and compassionate and constant action.
	www.keywestliteraryseminar.org /adventure-travel/p_petermatthiessen.htm (869 words)

	The Heinz Awards
		Peter Matthiessen receives the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities for his diverse body of fiction and non-fiction works, all of which display his extraordinary scope and versatility.
		Matthiessen is one of the very few American writers to be honored with nominations for the National Book Award in both fiction and non-fiction.
		Matthiessen’s journeys to Africa, Siberia, Mongolia, Nepal, India and New Guinea began in 1956 and since then both his fiction and his non-fiction have often had the destruction of nature and traditional societies as a theme.
	www.heinzawards.net /recipients.asp?action=detail&recipientID=27 (604 words)

	Review \| Tigers in the Snow by Peter Matthiessen
		Matthiessen brings all of Mayes' lyricism and even some of her joyous intimacy.
		In this, Matthiessen's 17th non-fiction book (there have been nine works of fiction, as well) we share in less scenery than usual and keep our mission firmly in mind: We're here to see tigers and understand their plight.
		Matthiessen's obvious care to not punch up this material has had, in some places, almost the reverse of the desired effect.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/tigersinsnow.html (768 words)

	Amazon.de: Tigers in the Snow: English Books: Peter Matthiessen,Maurice Hornocker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Matthiessen, whose text brims with a righteous rage on the tiger's behalf, is able to report a few success stories, as Russian, Chinese, and American biologists work to conserve habitat in the wild country memorialized by V.K. Arseniev's Dersu the Trapper, a memoir that informs Matthiessen's own book.
		Matthiessen's eloquent report on the fate of tigers--chiefly in Siberia but also in Indonesia, India, Thailand and China--explains what conservationists and governments are doing to save the tigers; compact reportage and natural history share space with poetic meditation on the significance and majesty of the big cats.
		Matthiessen begins and ends by recounting his trips to Russia (in 1992 and 1996) in which he sought the Siberian tiger, the largest and most majestic of surviving tiger subspecies.
	www.amazon.de /Tigers-Snow-Peter-Matthiessen/dp/0865475768 (1087 words)

	Peter Matthiessen Biography
		Peter Matthiessen is among a handful of American authors to be nominated for the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction--for the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) and the travel books The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972) and The...
		Peter Matthiessen was born on May 22, 1927, in New York City to Elizabeth Carey and Erard Matthiessen.
		Peter Matthiessen (born May 221927, in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction.
	www.bookrags.com /Peter_Matthiessen (450 words)

	Peter Matthiessen â“ FREE Peter Matthiessen Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Peter Matthiessen Research
		Interview: Peter Matthiessen remembers his friend George Plimpton, who has died at the age of 76
		Dark in the wilderness Peter Matthiessen's novel revisits the chilling side of the Sunshine state
		But, discovers Peter Matthiessen, life in the taiga can be a highly dangerous business, for man and beast
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-371554.html (1045 words)

	Powell's Books - The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen
		When Peter Matthiessen set out with the field biologist George Schaller from Pokhara, in northwest Nepal, their hope was to reach the Crystal Mountain — a foot journey of 250 miles or more across the Himalaya —; in the Land of Dolpo, on the Tibetan plateau.
		The Snow Leopard is Peter Matthiessen's radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart."
		Peter Mathiessen's "Snow Leopard" is a journey to the spiritual land of Tibet in search of one of a very rare animal--the snow leopard.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0140255087 (732 words)

	BookPage Interview February 2000: Peter Matthiessen
		Matthiessen's latest book, Tigers in the Snow, is a small gem of only 160 pages.
		It records the plight of these magnificent animals -- and the adventures of the scientists and villagers around them -- in a prose as sharp and evocative as the lines of a woodcut.
		Matthiessen has said that the difference between writing nonfiction and writing fiction is like the difference between making a cabinet and creating a sculpture.
	www.bookpage.com /0002bp/peter_matthiessen.html (1012 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Birds of Heaven: Livres en anglais: Peter Matthiessen,Robert Bateman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Acclaimed writer Peter Matthiessen, a self-professed "craniac," has been observing and studying all kinds of birds most of his life, but his pursuit of cranes is closer to a spiritual quest than a naturalist's exercise.
		Matthiessen's search for 15 different species of cranes has taken him to hidden corners of Siberia, China, Mongolia, Tibet, Sudan, and Australia (where Atherton cranes were not even discovered until 1961).
		In his wanderings, Matthiessen meets fellow travelers and "craniacs." Ornithologists, guides and hunters offer intriguing anecdotes about cranes and other creatures encountered during their adventures and misadventures in various wildernesses.
	www.amazon.fr /Birds-Heaven-Peter-Matthiessen/dp/0099447045 (649 words)

	Peter Matthiessen
		Popular among readers of all stripes, from college students to members of nature societies to fans of travel writing to lovers of the finest contemporary literature, Matthiessen's work shows up in newsstands, in classrooms, and in the collections of book lovers everywhere.
		Matthiessen's literary credentials are sterling, both as a fiction writer and as a journalist.
		Matthiessen's nonfiction, while full of adventure and high spirit, is also, melancholic at its heart, often sounding a bell of mourning for people and places threatened by encroaching forces of industrial development and cultural colonialism.
	www.english.udel.edu /lrussell/matthiessen.htm (489 words)

	Books by Peter Matthiessen
		Essay by Peter Matthiessen, color photographs by Boyd Norton and edited by Chez Liley.
		Peter Matthiessen" The author's fourth book and third novel which takes place on a troop transport vessel near the end of World War II.
		The book is Matthiessen's tribute to Cesar Chavez the founder and leader of the United Fram Workers.
	www.townsendbooks.com /matthies.htm (2014 words)

	Peter Muryo Matthiessen Biography
		Peter Matthiessen, born in New York City on May 22, 1927, is a novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer who bases the majority of his writing on his personal travels.
		In fiction and in nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen is one of the shamans of literature,√ì says John L. Cobbs in Dictionary of Literary Biography.
		Continuing the experimental technique used in Far Tortuga, Matthiessen uses ten different narrators to tell this fictionalized account of a mysterious execution of a man in a tiny coastal village in the Everglades in 1910.
	www.zenpeacemakers.org /about/bios/muryo_bio.htm (709 words)

	Peter Matthiessen - Authors - Random House
		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.
		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...
		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.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=19462 (621 words)

	Peter Matthiessen
		Matthiessen recounts with wit, insight and style his odyssey to the Amazon and Andes, including Machu Picchu and Tierra del Fuego.
		Matthiessen revisits and reworks his tale of Florida sugarcane farmer and infamous murderer Edgar J. Watson in this reprise of his classic trilogy Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone.
		Matthiessen writes movingly of tigers, their dwindling habitat and the people devoted to studying them.
	www.longitudebooks.com /find/d/50144/mcms.html (296 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Peter Matthiessen
		The Watson trilogy is Matthiessen's best work not only for its scope and sustained inquiry but also because it deals simultaneously with most of his favorite themes: the dynamic of man and environment, the sad quadrille of racial conflict, the potential of each of us for sudden, sickening violence.
		Despite the violence that flashes through much of his fiction, Matthiessen in person is doggedly constructive, eminently rational.
		Peter Matthiessen is a featured author at the First Edition Literary Gala on Friday, November 5 and will give a reading in the House Chamber at 11:45am on Saturday, November 6.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:74514 (669 words)

	'Lost Man's River' by Peter Matthiessen
		This is the second book in Matthiessen's Florida trilogy, the follow-up to ``Mr.
		A dedicated environmentalist and naturalist, Matthiessen has turned to fiction to chronicle the despoiling and destruction of Florida in the 20th century through the Watson saga, a kind of Frank Norris ``Epic of Wheat'' approach.
		Matthiessen is more subtle, carefully weaving his message through this detective story.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980125review85.asp (188 words)

	Writer Peter Matthiessen to speak on Nov. 15 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Writer Peter Matthiessen will be the first of three major authors to visit Stanford this year under the auspices of the Creative Writing Program's Jean and Bill Lane Lecture Series.
		Matthiessen will give a public reading of his work at 8 p.m.
		Matthiessen was born in New York in 1927.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/99/991110matthiessen.html (251 words)

	Parlez Moi - inscription, tricotant, art, la vie: Peter Matthiessen
		I had just read Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard and was besotted by the man. All my life I have fallen in love with writers the way lots of women fall for actors.
		A small book but utterly beautiful about the fishermen of Montauck where Matthiessen himself grew up and was a fisherman before becoming a writer and the founder of The Paris Review.
		Matthiessen writes with an understanding of what it means to love away of life and to see it slipping away — a poignancy that is what makes Men’s Lives, and Indian Country, and The Snow Leopard so shattering.
	www.parlezmoipress.com /mermaid/2006/08/peter-matthiessen.html (1067 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Peter Matthiessen
		Named in 1974 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Peter Matthiessen is a naturalist, novelist, Zen priest, and living legend.
		But it is Matthiessen's travel writing that established him as a consummate advocate for the natural world.
		Matthiessen was born in New York, the son of an architect and conservationist.
	www.lectures.org /matthiessen.html (404 words)

	Peter Matthiessen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		What was interesting about this particular writer was that he often chooses real events and researches them, and then creates a story using what he has learned, as well as what he imagines might have happened.
		Matthiessen was a fun person to watch -- he obviously enjoys his work, because at times would laugh along with the audience over jokes made by his own characters, and for each character acted them out a little.
		The acting wasn't necessary to enjoy the character -- they each had a strong personality that came through in their speech and interaction with the main character.
	faculty.rmwc.edu /lstreet/eng363s02/0000001c.htm (238 words)

	Featured Author: Peter Matthiessen
		Matthiessen has three indispensable qualities for an all-around writer: a sense of style, a sense of humor and an ungovernable curiosity.
		Matthiessen's prose, but the story we are awaiting, the feel of emergent Africa, is still as shrouded in mist as the crests of its fabled mountains."
		"Peter Matthiessen's fifth novel, 'Far Tortuga,' is a singular experience, a series of moments captured whole and rendered with a clarity that quickens the blood."
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/11/23/home/matthiessen.html (809 words)

	Peter Matthiessen - Wikipedia
		Peter Matthiessen (22 mei 1927) is een Amerikaans schrijver van historische fictie en non-fictie.
		Het werk van Matthiessen is bekend vanwege zijn diepgravende research.
		Matthiessen werd Zen beoefenaar en later boeddhistisch priester.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Matthiessen (284 words)

	'Shadow Country' by Peter Matthiessen - Los Angeles Times
		The central axle of Peter Matthiessen's magnificent and capacious novel is another larger-than-life figure, E.J. Watson (Bloody Watson, Emperor Watson), who was a brave and indefatigable pioneer in the Florida Everglades and an astonishing liar and murderer.
		It starts with the remarkable gambit of displaying the cataclysmic murder of Watson by his neighbors on the wooden dock in front of Smallwood's post office, his body the repository of dozens of wounds and 33 rounds of ammunition.
		Matthiessen describes, from the inside, his anguish and his anger with such authority that they pulse with heat and life.
	www.latimes.com /features/books/la-bk-carlson6apr06,0,1785745.story (1539 words)

	The Infography about Peter Matthiessen (1927- )
		The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is American author Peter Matthiessen.
		"Peter Matthiessen: The Fullness of Quest." In his Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters.
		Matthiessen's response to Scott Anderson's "The Martyrdom of Leonard Peltier." http://web.outsideonline.com/magazine/1095/10c_mean.html
	www.infography.com /content/002799989656.html (391 words)

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