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Peter Matthiessen
b. 1927, american
Blue Meridian
The Search for the Great White Shark
Blue Meridian chronicles the search
over thousands of miles of ocean for the
most dangerous predator on earth: the
legendary Great White Shark. Filled with
acute observations of natural history
in exotic areas around the world, this
harrowing account is one of the great
adventures of our time.
204 pp. 978-0-14-026513-2 $15.00
The Cloud Forest
Filled with observations and descriptions
of the people and the fading wildlife of the
vast world of South America,The Cloud
Forest is Matthiessen’s incisive,wry report
of his expedition into some of the last and
most exotic wild terrains in the world.
280 pp. 978-0-14-025507-2 $16.00
*The Snow Leopard
Introduction by Pico Iyer
Winner of the National Book Award
In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field
biologist George Schaller traveled high
into the remote mountains of Nepal
to study the Himalayan blue sheep
and possibly glimpse the rare and
beautiful snow leopard. Updated with
an introduction by Pico Iyer, this is the
account of their five-week trek, revealing
the narrator and his world.
368 pp. 978-0-14-310551-0 $15.00
162 Penguin ClassiCs
“a beautiful, magnificent book . . . one of
the most wonderful accounts i know of
journeying in our time.” —w. s. m e r w i n
The Tree Where Man Was Born
Skillfully and magically portraying the
sights, scenes, and people he observed
firsthand in several trips over the course
of a dozen years, Peter Matthiessen
exquisitely combines nature and travel
writing to bring East Africa to vivid life.
432 pp. 978-0-14-023934-8 $17.00
Under the Mountain Wall
A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age
New Guinea
Drawing on his great skills as a naturalist
and novelist, Peter Matthiessen offers a
remarkable firsthand view of the Kurelu,
a Stone Age tribe that survived into the
twentieth-century in all its simplicity and
violence—on the brink of incalculable
change.
272 pp. 978-0-14-025270-5 $19.00
Charles robert Maturin
1782 – 1824, irish
Melmoth the Wanderer
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Victor Sage
Melmoth’s satanic pact for immortality
condemns him to wander the earth,
a tormented outsider. This Gothic
masterpiece —first published in
1820—follows in the tradition of both
the classics of its genre and the works of
Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne.
704 pp. 978-0-14-044761-3 $15.00
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen is the acclaimed author of numerous works of fiction and
nonfiction. His accomplishments as a naturalist and explorer have resulted in
more than a dozen books on natural history and the environment, including
The Snow Leopard, which won the National Book Award. Matthiessen is also the
author of a collection of short stories and numerous novels, among them Shadow
Country, which won the National Book Award in 2008. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.