The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen. It is an account of his two-month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.
At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen. A film adapted from the book was made in 1991. A 2009 audiobook version was read by actor Anthony Heald. In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the …
Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, it is a semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar "Bloody" Watson, a real Florida sugar cane plantation owner and alleged outlaw who was killed in the remote Ten …
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse és un llibre de Peter Matthiessen on fa una crònica de "La història de Leonard Peltier i la guerra del FBI contra l'American Indian Movement". Va ser publicat per primera vegada el 1983. Leonard Peltier va ser condemnat a cadena perpètua el 1977 per l'assassinat en 1975 dos agents del FBI, …
Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century.