Blue Meridian
The Search for the Great White Shark
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
National Book Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen takes readers on an expedition to find the most dangerous predator on Earth—the legendary great white shark. On a trek that lasts 17 months and takes him from the Caribbean to the whaling grounds off South Africa, and across the Indian Ocean to the South Australian coast, Matthiessen describes the awesome experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks; the beauties of strange seas and landscapes; and the camaraderie, tension, humor, and frustrations that develop when people continually risking their lives dwell in close proximity…
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July 1, 1997
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 published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it. Matthiessen died in 2014.
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen
In Paradise
Peter Matthiessen
The Tree Where Man Was Born
Peter Matthiessen
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen; Introduction by Pico Iyer
North American Indians
George Catlin; Edited with an Introduciton by Peter Matthiessen
Bone by Bone
Peter Matthiessen
The Peter Matthiessen Reader
Peter Matthiessen Edited and With an Introduction by McKay Jenkins
Lost Man's River
Peter Matthiessen
Blue Meridian
Peter Matthiessen
African Silences
Peter Matthiessen
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Peter Matthiessen
Killing Mister Watson
Peter Matthiessen
Blue Meridian
Peter Matthiessen
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin
The Maine Woods
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
Under the Mountain Wall
Peter Matthiessen