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  • Epistemic Entitlement

    The Right to Believe

    by H. Matthiessen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Corrosion of Metallic Heritage Artefacts

    Investigation, Conservation and Prediction of Long Term Behaviour

    by P Dillmann, G Beranger, P Piccardo, H Matthiessen ...
    Series Book 48 - European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) Series
    Understanding long term corrosion processes is critical in many areas, including archaeology and conservation. This important book reviews key themes such as the processes underlying corrosion over long periods, how corrosion rates can be measured and materials conserved.After an overview of the study and conservation of metal archaeological artefacts, a group of chapters reviews long term ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • The Snow Leopard

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)**In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Far Tortuga

    A Novel

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself."Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • At Play in the Fields of the Lord

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • In Paradise

    A Novel

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award.Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it.One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Shadow Country

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Narrated by Anthony Heald ...

    Unabridged

    40 hours 20 min

    Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen’s reimagining of the legend of E. J. Watson, the Everglades sugarcane planter and notorious outlaw of the wild Florida frontier. Vividly capturing the American hinterlands at the turn of the twentieth century, it traces the story of Watson through eyewitness perspectives as he drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who ... Read more

    $39.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

    The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement

    by Peter Matthiessen, Martin Garbus ...
    An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In ParadiseOn a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Tree Where Man Was Born: Exploring Nature's Cradle with Peter Matthiessen and Jane Goodall

    by Peter Matthiessen and Jane Goodall ...
    The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen and Jane Goodall: Embark on a captivating journey into the heart of Africa's wilderness with "The Tree Where Man Was Born" by Peter Matthiessen and Jane Goodall. This collaborative work combines Matthiessen's evocative prose with Goodall's deep insights into the behavior of chimpanzees. Through vivid descriptions and stunning photography, the book ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Tree Where Man Was Born

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Under the Mountain Wall

    A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    Series series Classic, Nature, Penguin
    A remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award–winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise.In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Shadow Country

    by Peter Matthiessen ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of BooksKilling Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook