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"In The Peter Matthiessen Reader, editor McKay Jenkins presents a single-volume collection of this distinguished author's nonfiction. Here are essays and excerpts that highlight the spiritual, literary, and political daring so crucial to Matthiessen's vision. Matthiessen chronicles his 250-mile trek across the Himalaya to the Tibetan Plateau in a selection from the National Book Award winner The Snow Leopard. Wild peoples, wilderness, and wildlife - common themes throughout Matthiessen's oeuvre - are examined in The Tree Where Man Was Born. Here too are excerpts from Indian Country and In the…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2000Vintage Books · 359 pages · 9780375702723
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