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In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the late autumn of 1996, more than a hundred people gather at the site of a former death camp. Throughout that week, they offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a centu ...Show more
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of his neighbours. Following the story of his ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen
26.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Penguin Classics
A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by the National Book Award-winning author of "The Snow Leopard," now with a new introduction by Jane Goodall. A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains as fresh and revelatory now as on the d ...Show more
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