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Peter Matthiessen (1) (1927–2014)

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Peter Matthiessen was born in Manhattan, New York on May 22, 1927. He served in the Navy at Pearl Harbor. He graduated with a degree in English from Yale University in 1950. It was around this time that he was recruited by the CIA and traveled to Paris, where he became acquainted with several young vis mere expatriate American writers. In the postwar years the CIA covertly financed magazines and cultural programs to counter the spread of Communism. While in Paris, he helped found The Paris Review in 1953. After returning to the United States, he worked as a commercial fisherman and the captain of a charter fishing boat. His first novel, Race Rock, was published in 1954. His other fiction works include Partisans, Raditzer, Far Tortuga, and In Paradise. His novel, Shadow Country, won a National Book Award. His novel, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, was made into a movie. He started writing nonfiction after divorcing his first wife. An assignment for Sports Illustrated to report on American endangered species led to the book Wildlife in America, which was published in 1959. His travels took him to Asia, Australia, South America, Africa, New Guinea, the Florida swamps, and beneath the ocean. These travels led to articles in The New Yorker as well as numerous nonfiction books including The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness, Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons of Stone Age New Guinea, Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark, The Tree Where Man Was Born, and Men's Lives. The Snow Leopard won the 1979 National Book Award for nonfiction. He died from leukemia on April 5, 2014 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Peter Matthiessen

The Snow Leopard (1978) 2,632 eksemplarer
Shadow Country (2008) 1,216 eksemplarer
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983) 1,112 eksemplarer
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) 905 eksemplarer
Killing Mister Watson (1990) 741 eksemplarer
Far Tortuga (1975) 527 eksemplarer
In Paradise (2014) 441 eksemplarer
The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972) 406 eksemplarer
Lost Man's River (1997) 286 eksemplarer
Wildlife in America (1959) 248 eksemplarer
African Silences (1991) 245 eksemplarer
Indian Country (1984) 227 eksemplarer
Bone by Bone (1999) 226 eksemplarer
Tigers in the Snow (2000) 170 eksemplarer
Sand Rivers (1981) 161 eksemplarer
Men's Lives (1986) 147 eksemplarer
On the River Styx and other stories (1989) 141 eksemplarer
East of Lo Monthang (1995) 66 eksemplarer
Raditzer (1961) 55 eksemplarer
Race Rock (1954) 44 eksemplarer
The Peter Matthiessen Reader (2000) 44 eksemplarer
Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia (1992) 43 eksemplarer
Partisans (1987) 38 eksemplarer
The Shorebirds of North America (1967) — Forfatter — 37 eksemplarer
Shadows of Africa (1992) 26 eksemplarer
Zen and the Writing Life (1999) 12 eksemplarer
No Boundaries (1993) 7 eksemplarer
Seal pool (1972) 7 eksemplarer
The Passionate Seekers (1955) 2 eksemplarer
The Great Auk Escape (1974) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Det tavse forår (1962) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver6,332 eksemplarer
North American Indians (1995) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver447 eksemplarer
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Bidragyder — 319 eksemplarer
Bad Trips (1991) — Bidragyder — 231 eksemplarer
Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (1997) — Bidragyder — 166 eksemplarer
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Bidragyder — 122 eksemplarer
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (1994) — Bidragyder — 104 eksemplarer
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean (2017) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver96 eksemplarer
Totch: A Life in the Everglades (1993) — Forord — 61 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 63, Autumn 1989 (1989) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Where the Silence Rings: A Literary Companion to Mountains (2007) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Paris Review 32 1964 Summer-Fall (1964) — Redaktør — 4 eksemplarer
The Paris Review 95 1985 Spring (1985) — Redaktør — 2 eksemplarer
Peter Matthiessen no boundaries [video recording] (2009) — Featured — 1 eksemplar

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The story is told as a drawn-out series of accounts of the famous shoot-out at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1975, but also concerning many other related events and combined with extracts of court transcripts and of the author’s interviews. Ultimately it’s never clear why FBI agents were at the shoot-out site initially, who shot whom when, and exactly what Leonard Peltier had to do with it. Most or all prosecutorial, FBI, and presented “witness” accounts seem unreliable, and there is now knowledge of either fabricated ballistic evidence or information that was withheld about ballistic evidence. The author was clearly personally involved in this, his sympathies are immediately and everywhere clear. He brings the story to us in a protracted repetitive fashion, but the main disappointment for the reader is that almost everything is left in the air, and although it seems clear that Peltier was picked by the FBI to take the fall and then received a sham trial, it is also clear that two FBI agents were murdered (it's not self-defense when you shoot a wounded man in the head), and that Peltier is a serial felon from adolescence. An account related to the author from an unnamed and disguised Indian "X" confessing to the murders given near the end of the book didn't seem to be a more reliable account than any other.
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I have had some interest in lying in the past, and I noticed that many of the stories told on both sides are of a type commonly used when lying (see the current liar-in-chief or, especially, Mr. Putin). If I ask you if you did something, a common truthful response might be "no", but a common untruthful response is, "Why would a person like me do something like that?".
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markm2315 | 5 andre anmeldelser | Jul 1, 2023 |
Slow and calm while being poignant and intense. I sat pondering pages that were blank but for a few words or a splash of ink, or a monologue without a specified speaker. "Just enough" in many respects - almost minimalist, but I'm sure I misuse the word. Mainly less to my taste because it was so long and slow, but I loved the style and characterization dearly.
 
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alex.rothb | 8 andre anmeldelser | May 10, 2023 |
Edgar (E.J.) Watson was a historic person born in 1855 who lived through the horrible Florida hurricane of 1910. He was a hero to some and a villain to others. Matthiessen takes snippets of history and an assortment of folks who supposedly knew the story of Watson to give readers all the possibilities. The eyewitnesses disagree about the circumstances surrounding Watson's life and death in southwestern Florida. However, we learn much more about the thinking of the time and the Florida land before it is developed. The area and people are portrayed as wild and primitive. So many disregard nature by attempting to conquer and control it. The author includes descriptions of inaccurate weather forecasting, surviving and succumbing to hurricanes, and their aftereffects. In general, many humans were misguided in thinking they could destroy humans, animals, vegetation, and whatever was in the way without consequence.

Some of the places depicted include:
Ten Thousand Islands
Everglades
Okeechobee
Chokoloskee
Possum Key
Monroe County
Lee County

Some of the distinguishing characteristics, traits, features, or hallmarks of "old Florida" include:
Counties and governorship
Deputies
Sheriffs
Crackers, Baptist Crackers
Draining Okeechobee
The Calusa: "The Shell Indians" shell mounds
Calusa mounds
Natives, Blacks, Biracial people
Chain gangs
Posses
Wild bird eggs
Reconstruction
Seminole Wars
Harvesting skins
Plume wars
See my reviews at https://quipsandquotes.net/
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LindaLoretz | 8 andre anmeldelser | Mar 17, 2023 |
Matthiessen writes proses as poetry. A magical combination of travel, nature and Buddhist thinking that brings the reader along a heartfelt journey
 
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kropferama | 51 andre anmeldelser | Jan 1, 2023 |

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