Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
by Matthiessen, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394552512
- ISBN 13
- 9780394552514
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Synopsis
Peter Matthiessen, distinguished novelist, naturalist, journalist, and explorer, was born in New York City and has been a commercial fisherman and charterboat captain. He participated as a diver in the worldwide search for the great white shark that culminated in his book Blue Meridian and in the film Blue Water, White Death. His fiction includes Race Rock; Partisans; Raditzer; At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and most recently Far Tortuga. His nonfiction includes The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for a National Book Award, The Snow Leopard, which won a National Book Award in 1979, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
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- Bookseller
- Frabjous Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018994
- Title
- Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394552512
- ISBN 13
- 9780394552514
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Zen
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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