A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise 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 day it was first published. Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to portray the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years. From the daily lives of wild...
A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow ...
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th 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.
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, 'Shadow Country' reimagines the legend of the Everglades...
