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Deeply gripping... with a prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion. -- Washington Post Book World <br> Matthiessen is a great travel companion ..... His knowledge of plants, animals and people is breathtaking. -- Boston Globe

Deeply gripping... with a prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion. -- Washington Post Book World Matthiessen is a great travel companion ..... His knowledge of plants, animals and people is breathtaking. -- Boston Globe

Deeply gripping... with a prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion. -- Washington Post Book World Matthiessen is a great travel companion ..... His knowledge of plants,animals and people is breathtaking. -- Boston Globe

"""Deeply gripping... with a prose of characteristic grace and perfectly distilled passion."" -- Washington Post Book World ""Matthiessen is a great travel companion ..... His knowledge of plants,animals and people is breathtaking."" -- Boston Globe"

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Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it. Matthiessen died in 2014.

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