Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1985
by Matthiessen, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/near fine
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
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
- Old New York Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50333
- Title
- Nine-Headed Dragon River
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- journal, zen, buddhism, death and dying
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION;
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