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The author chronicles his quest for spiritual roots, describes his early Zen experiences and his gradual reawakening to life through Zen.
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hronicles his quest for spiritual roots, describes his early Zen experiences and his gradual reawakening to life through Zen.
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Peter Matthiessen, distinguished novelist, naturalist, journalist, and explorer, was born in New York City and has been a commercial fisherman and charterboat captain. He participated as a diver in the worldwide search for the great white shark that culminated in his book Blue Meridian and in the film Blue Water, White Death. His fiction includes Race Rock; Partisans; Raditzer; At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and most recently Far Tortuga. His nonfiction includes The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for a National Book Award, The Snow Leopard, which won a National Book Award in 1979, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.
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- PublisherCollins Harvill
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0002715090
- ISBN 13 9780002715096
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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