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The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
Acclaimed writer Peter Matthiessen, a self-professed "craniac," has been observing and studying all kinds of birds most of his life, but his pursuit of cranes is closer to a spiritual quest than a naturalist's exercise. These majestic, mythic, ... [... more]
$16.00
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The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
Acclaimed writer Peter Matthiessen, a self-professed "craniac," has been observing and studying all kinds of birds most of his life, but his pursuit of cranes is closer to a spiritual quest than a naturalist's exercise. These majestic, mythic, ... [... more]
$27.50
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The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes
Acclaimed writer Peter Matthiessen, a self-professed "craniac," has been observing and studying all kinds of birds most of his life, but his pursuit of cranes is closer to a spiritual quest than a naturalist's exercise. These majestic, mythic, ... [... more]
$27.50
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End of the Earth: Expeditions To South Georgia and ...
Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical ... [... more]
$26.00
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Zen Meditation in Plain English
The jolt of confidence you get when discussing a day's performance with a seasoned veteran can take any activity to a higher level. In his concise and informative Zen Meditation in Plain English, meditation veteran John Daishin Buksbazen gives detailed ... [... more]
$12.95
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African Silences
African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous ... [... more]
$13.00
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Baikal Sacred Sea of Siberia
the spirit of Siberia The hardcover book is a jewel: the pictures are absolutely beautiful, and the texts which accompany them is interesting. The excerpts from Valentin Rasputin's books on Lake Baikal are well chosen. It is extremely interesting to & ... [... more]
$25.00
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Sand Rivers
A poignant excursion into one of earth's last wild places Peter Mattheissen ("The Tree Where Man was born," "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," "The Snow Leopard") takes the reader on a safari into the Selous, the grandest ... [... more]
$12.95
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Cloud Forest (Classic, Nature, Penguin)
What's with Ginsberg? Macchu Picchu, a giant fossilized mandible, steam ships, and Allen Ginsberg. What can be wrong with a book that features all that. Seriously, this is a great book. Good culutral anthropology without all the anthropology to get in ... [... more]
$16.00
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Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia
the spirit of Siberia The hardcover book is a jewel: the pictures are absolutely beautiful, and the texts which accompany them is interesting. The excerpts from Valentin Rasputin's books on Lake Baikal are well chosen. It is extremely interesting to & ... [... more]
$18.00
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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics)
In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth.& ... [... more]
$15.00
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Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in ...
Decent book - lousy photographs This is one of Peter Matthiesen's early books in which he chose to write as an unseen and unmentioned observer, which really does not work for me. The book is not for the faint of heart as barbaric practices -- mutilation, ... [... more]
$10.00
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