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(0)Peter Matthiessen
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
This book is a stirring look at the tiger, a magnificent animal that has long fueled human fascination. In critical danger of extinction, only a few thousand of these giant cats remain. Matthiessen's exquisite prose stunningly captures the tigers' dramatic fight to survive.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
2008 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 892 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A reworking of the author's trilogy chronicles the legacy of E.J. Watson, a notorious desperado gunned down by his neighbors along the lawless nineteenth-century frontier of the Florida Everglades.
3) In paradise
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peter Matthiessen recounts his 10,000-mile trek through the South American wilderness, from the tops of the Andes to the depths of the Amazon. Here, Matthiessen chronicles his amazing adventure and the people he shared it with, including bandits and tribal people.