Peter Matthiessen

The author chronicles his quest for spiritual roots, describes his early Zen experiences and his gradual reawakening to life through Zen.

The tree where man was born is the 1972 book by Peter Matthiessen.

Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse és un llibre de Peter Matthiessen on fa una crònica de "La història de Leonard Peltier i la guerra del FBI contra l'American Indian Movement". Va ser publicat per primera vegada el 1983. Leonard Peltier va ser condemnat a cadena perpètua el 1977 per l'assassinat en 1975 dos agents del FBI, …

Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson, a real Florida sugar cane plantation owner and alleged outlaw who was killed in the remote Ten …

At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. A film adapted from the book was made in 1991. A 2009 audiobook version was read by actor Anthony Heald. In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the …

The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.