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  • Audiobook

    Castles & Ruins

    Unraveling Family Mysteries and Literary Legacy in the Irish Countryside

    Narrated by Rue Matthiessen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    Decades after spending a summer in the Irish countryside with her parents—author Deborah Love and National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen—Rue takes her young family back to Ireland to revisit locales from that season in the sixties. As a guide, she has her mother’s poetic book, Annaghkeen, named for the castle that overlooked their home in Galway. What begins as a simple, nostalgic trip ... Read more

    $18.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Epistemic Entitlement

    The Right to Believe

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Snow Leopard

    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“A masterpiece that exceeds the boundaries of the travel genre and envelops you with its incredible prose.” —Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)**In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Shadow Country

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of BooksKilling Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • At Play in the Fields of the Lord

    In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Men's Lives

    An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Lost Man's River

    Shadow Country Trilogy (2)

    Series series Vintage International
    When his novel Killing Mister Watson was published in 1990, the reviews were extraordinary. It was heralded as "a marvel of invention . . . a virtuoso performance" (The New York Times Book Review) and a "novel [that] stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now Peter Matthiessen brings us the second novel in his Watson trilogy, a project ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • On the River Styx

    And Other Stories

    Series series Vintage International
    Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.This stunning collection of short stories, available for the first time in paperback, spans more than three decades of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

    The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement

    An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In ParadiseOn a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Far Tortuga

    A Novel

    An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself."Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • In Paradise

    A Novel

    The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award.Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it.One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Tree Where Man Was Born

    For encouraging the making of this book I am particularly grateful to Dr. John S. Owen, director of the Tanzania National Park, whose vision and dedication in a crucial time helped to save African wildlife for the future.I thank Martha Gellhorn and Truman Capote for recommending me so generously to Dr. Owen, and also William Shawn of The New Yorker magazine for the unfailing support that has made ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus