Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals
by Matthiessen, Peter
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Lakewood, Colorado, 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Evergreen Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0832
- Title
- Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Collins Harvill
- Date Published
- 1986
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