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Peter Matthiessen (1) (1927–2014)

Autore di Il leopardo delle nevi

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Peter Matthiessen was born in Manhattan, New York on May 22, 1927. He served in the Navy at Pearl Harbor. He graduated with a degree in English from Yale University in 1950. It was around this time that he was recruited by the CIA and traveled to Paris, where he became acquainted with several young mostra altro expatriate American writers. In the postwar years the CIA covertly financed magazines and cultural programs to counter the spread of Communism. While in Paris, he helped found The Paris Review in 1953. After returning to the United States, he worked as a commercial fisherman and the captain of a charter fishing boat. His first novel, Race Rock, was published in 1954. His other fiction works include Partisans, Raditzer, Far Tortuga, and In Paradise. His novel, Shadow Country, won a National Book Award. His novel, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, was made into a movie. He started writing nonfiction after divorcing his first wife. An assignment for Sports Illustrated to report on American endangered species led to the book Wildlife in America, which was published in 1959. His travels took him to Asia, Australia, South America, Africa, New Guinea, the Florida swamps, and beneath the ocean. These travels led to articles in The New Yorker as well as numerous nonfiction books including The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness, Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons of Stone Age New Guinea, Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark, The Tree Where Man Was Born, and Men's Lives. The Snow Leopard won the 1979 National Book Award for nonfiction. He died from leukemia on April 5, 2014 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Peter Matthiessen

Il leopardo delle nevi (1978) 2,687 copie
Shadow Country (2008) 1,241 copie
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983) 1,122 copie
Killing Mister Watson (1990) 753 copie
Far Tortuga (1975) 536 copie
In Paradise (2014) 443 copie
The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972) 417 copie
Lost Man's River (1997) 290 copie
Wildlife in America (1959) 252 copie
African Silences (1991) 251 copie
Indian Country (1984) 231 copie
Bone by Bone (1999) 228 copie
Tigers in the Snow (2000) 168 copie
Sand Rivers (1981) 162 copie
Men's Lives (1986) 151 copie
East of Lo Monthang (1995) 67 copie
Raditzer (1961) 55 copie
Race Rock (1954) 45 copie
Partisans (1987) 39 copie
The Shorebirds of North America (1967) — Autore — 38 copie
Shadows of Africa (1992) 26 copie
Zen and the Writing Life (1999) 12 copie
No Boundaries (1993) 7 copie
Seal pool (1972) 7 copie
The Passionate Seekers (1955) 2 copie
The Great Auk Escape (1974) 1 copia

Opere correlate

Primavera silenziosa (1962) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni6,482 copie
North American Indians (1995) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni453 copie
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Collaboratore — 325 copie
Bad Trips (1991) — Collaboratore — 233 copie
Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (1997) — Collaboratore — 173 copie
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (1994) — Collaboratore — 105 copie
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean (2017) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni103 copie
Totch: A Life in the Everglades (1993) — Prefazione — 63 copie
Antaeus No. 63, Autumn 1989 (1989) — Collaboratore — 15 copie

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I bought this book years ago, and although I've long since been aware that it's more travel/nature-writing than about wildlife, let alone the snow leopard in particular, I admit I was still hoping for more of a focus on wildlife. There's no denying that Matthiessen is an incredibly talented nature writer, and for what it is, I enjoyed reading about his travels and hiking, but I can't help feeling that the book is closer kin to books on spirituality and eastern philosophy than it is to anything related to nature and/or wildlife. I'm not sure if this is in the territory of the rest of Matthiessen's writing, but it's undeniable that I feel a touch misled and likely won't read his other works.

I'd recommend this for readers interested in personal spiritual journeys undertaken in nature and fans of nature-based travel writing, but that's about all I can say, I fear. It was fine, but it really wasn't for me.
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whitewavedarling | 52 altre recensioni | Mar 11, 2024 |
An absolute must for crane lovers and an enjoyable read for bird lovers in general. Matthiessen couples his own travels with some science and local color to make a world ranging group of birds seem immediate and the protection of said birds a vital mission of anyone reading .
For non- crane lovers, it might be a bit repetitive…go to place x in hopes of seeing crane y…learn a bit about them…then go to place y and repeat, but …all in all…a joy
 
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cspiwak | 1 altra recensione | Mar 6, 2024 |
The story is told as a drawn-out series of accounts of the famous shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1975, but also concerning many other related events and combined with extracts of court transcripts and of the author’s interviews. Ultimately it’s never clear why FBI agents were at the shoot-out site initially, who shot whom when, and exactly what Leonard Peltier had to do with it. Most or all prosecutorial, FBI, and presented “witness” accounts seem unreliable, and there is now knowledge of either fabricated ballistic evidence or information that was withheld about ballistic evidence. The author was clearly personally involved in this, his sympathies are immediately and everywhere clear. He brings the story to us in a protracted repetitive fashion, but the main disappointment for the reader is that almost everything is left in the air, and although it seems clear that Peltier was picked by the FBI to take the fall and then received a sham trial, it is also clear that two FBI agents were murdered (it's not self-defense when you shoot a wounded man in the head), and that Peltier is a serial felon from adolescence. An account related to the author from an unnamed and disguised Indian "X" confessing to the murders given near the end of the book didn't seem to be a more reliable account than any other.
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I have had some interest in lying in the past, and I noticed that many of the stories told on both sides are of a type commonly used when lying (see the current liar-in-chief or, especially, Mr. Putin). If I ask you if you did something, a common truthful response might be "no", but a common untruthful response is, "Why would a person like me do something like that?".
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markm2315 | 5 altre recensioni | Jul 1, 2023 |
Slow and calm while being poignant and intense. I sat pondering pages that were blank but for a few words or a splash of ink, or a monologue without a specified speaker. "Just enough" in many respects - almost minimalist, but I'm sure I misuse the word. Mainly less to my taste because it was so long and slow, but I loved the style and characterization dearly.
 
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alex.rothb | 8 altre recensioni | May 10, 2023 |

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