The Peter Matthiessen Reader Paperback - 2000
by Peter Matthiessen; Introduction by McKay Jenkins
Collected for the first time, this anthology of Matthiessen's finest nature writings includes 13 excerpts that stand flawlessly on their own and demonstrate why the author is considered by many to be a writer without peer.
From the rear cover
Perhaps no writer has better articulated our relationship to the environment than Peter Matthiessen. From Wildlife in America to Men's Lives, his work has captured the wonder of the natural world -- and the horrors of resource exploitation, with its violent effects on traditional peoples and the poor.
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 with grace and power in The Tree Where Man Was Born. Here too are excerpts from Indian Country and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Matthiessen's stunning expose of the Leonard Peltier case and the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the American Indian Movement. Comprehensive and engrossing, The Peter Matthiessen Reader celebrates an American voice unequaled in its commitment to literature's noblest aspiration: to challenge us to perceive our world -- as well as ourselves -- truthfully and clearly.
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- Title The Peter Matthiessen Reader
- Author Peter Matthiessen; Introduction by McKay Jenkins
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 2000-01-04
- ISBN 9780375702723 / 0375702725
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.92 x 5.17 x 0.87 in (20.12 x 13.13 x 2.21 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99035246
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/1999, Page 1865
- Library Journal, 01/01/2000, Page 108
- Outside, 01/01/2000, Page 97
- Publishers Weekly, 12/20/1999, Page 75
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