Peter Matthiessen
Born
in New York City, The United States
May 22, 1927
Died
April 05, 2014
Genre
The Snow Leopard
131 editions
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1978
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Shadow Country
28 editions
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2008
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
44 editions
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published
1983
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
76 editions
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1965
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In Paradise
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2014
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Killing Mister Watson (Shadow Country Trilogy #1)
30 editions
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published
1990
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Far Tortuga
22 editions
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published
1975
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
42 editions
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published
1972
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Lost Man's River
26 editions
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published
1997
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The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
46 editions
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1961
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“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”
― The Snow Leopard
― The Snow Leopard
“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.”
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“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”
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Polls
Time to vote for our July selection. Genre is literary/general fiction. Last day to vote Wednesday, June 5th.
The Book of Tomorrow
Cecelia Ahern
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Winter Loon
Susan Bernhard
True Places
Sonja Yoerg
In Paradise
Peter Matthiessen
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