Peter Matthiessen Introduction (31 results)
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Matthiessen, Peter [Introduction]; His Holiness the Dalai Lama [Foreword];
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A trade paperback in excellent condition, clean with a tight binding and an unmarked text.From a private smoke free collection.Shipping within 24 hours, with a tracking number and delivery confirmation.
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books; Penguin Nature Classics Ser., New York, 1996
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. xxxiii, 522 pages, illustrations, maps; 20 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly bowed. Browning. First edition thus. *** "From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin travelled extensively among the native peoples of North America. Studying their habits, customs, and mode of life, he made nume…rous notes and sketches. This volume presents Catlin's journals and is illustrated with reproductions of his paintings." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
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Oversized Paperback. Condition: Good.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.
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Hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Some scuffing to bottom cover edges, with some edgewear to dustjacket. Indigenous to Asia, and once widely distributed across the continent, the tiger is yet another of the world's creatures to come perilously close to extinction in the last centu…ry. Where a hundred years ago the population of Panthera tigris and its cousins stood at more than 100,000, a 1995 census put the total at less than 5,000. And, writes Peter Matthiessen, a longtime student and champion of endangered wildlife, "most biologists and conservationists . would set that number even lower."Working with the noted wildlife biologist and photographer Maurice Hornocker, Matthiessen recounts his travels into the Russian Far East and Manchuria in search of one of the rarest of the big cats, Panthera tigris altaica, the Siberian tiger. Once shielded, and not by design, by Communist policies that restricted travel in and development of its wilderness habitat, the Siberian tiger is increasingly threatened throughout much of its range as the dense old-growth forests of the Pacific seaboard fall to Japanese logging companies; at the same time, the tiger is still hunted for parts used by Chinese apothecaries (drinking the essence of a tiger is thought to bring renewed sexual vigor to aging men). Matthiessen, whose text brims with a righteous rage on the tiger's behalf, is able to report a few success stories, as Russian, Chinese, and American biologists work to conserve habitat in the wild country memorialized by V.K. Arseniev's Dersu the Trapper, a memoir that informs Matthiessen's own book. But his book is also full of tragedy, of terrible stories that help press a case for why the Siberian tiger should be protected everywhere in its domain. Matching a thoughtful, well-crafted text with remarkable photographs of tigers in the wild, this is a book that, with luck, will help spur renewed interest in making the world safe for wildlife of all kinds. Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 ? April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, and zen teacher. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he was the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). He was also a prominent environmental activist.
The Circle of Life: Rituals from the Human Family Album
David Cohen, Editor; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Introduction; Peter Matthiessen, Afterword
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Harper San Francisco, 1991. First Edition. 240 pages. Illustrated. 13.5 x 9.5", hardcover, dj. Very Good/Very Good.
Published by Penguin Books, 1989
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 522pp; Index; b/w illustrations. Contents clean and unmarked. No ownership name; no library markings.
Published by Sundarim Tagore Gallery, 2008
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good. Signed by author on title page. Book has water damage to top and bottom edges of back cover (affecting several pages in back), a touch of wear to edges and tips of corners, a slight crease/bend to top corners of pages. otherwise in good condition, strong binding, pages are free of underlining and writ…ing; some cosmetic wear but an overall decent reading copy. Signed.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. This richly illustrated book is a welcome event for scientists, writers, photographers, and armchair travelers, since here, for the first time in book form, are reproduced more than 300 color photographs by Tui De Roy Moore, the only photographer who…has had access to the Galapagos since childhood.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (The Folio Society)
Catlin, George; Peter Matthiessen [Introduction]; C. J. Shepherd [Editor]
Language: English
Published by Folio Society, 2009
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Folio Society. Good hardcover, bump to head with some wear there; lacking publisher's slipcase.
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 185 pages. A beautiful illustrated examination of the hi…ghly endangered Siberian tigers.
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More imagesThe Circle of Life: Rituals from the Human Family Album
David Cohen, Editor; Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Introduction; Peter Matthiessen, Afterword
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st. First edition thus. First softcover edition. Published NY: Harpercollins, 1991, first printing. folio wrappers, 9 1/2" x 12 3/4", 240pp., illus full color photos. "Photographs capture significant rites of passage such as christenings, weddings, a…nd funerals, from cultures around the globe." Near fine.
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Language: English
Published by Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown, and Company, Boston - Toronto - London, 1991
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bottom corners have light shelf wear, small bookplate on front end page, black felt pen line on top edge, otherwise without flaw. Oblong 11.25 X 9.25" 183 pages, published 1991. Carefully immerse yourselves in the desert, in the silence and beauty, a…nd your Baja experience will be like no other. With 181 color illustrations, end-page maps **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**. Terrance Moore - Photography (illustrator).
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG to Fine. VG to Fine. 1st Ed. 185 pages. Illustrated. Size: 7 x 9.5. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Endangered Species--Tigers.
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Wildlife in America
MATTHIESSEN, Peter; introduction by Richard H. Pough, illustrations by Bob Hines;
Published by . New York, The Viking Press, 1959, First Edition., 1959
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Add to basket8vo [25 x 18 cm]; 304 pp, numerous illus, color plates by Catesby, Wilson, Peale, Audubon, Fuertes, double page map, pictorial eps. original cloth, dj (edgewear, small chips), hinge cracked but firm, very good. This book is the first comprehensive history of American wildlife and how it has been effected by man. The author based… it on the accounts of explorers, settlers, naturalists and his own observations. A picture of this book is available on request.
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 185 pages. 9.25x6.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by North Point Press, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
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[0-86547-576-8] 2000, 1st US edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. xviii, 185pp. 8vo. First US edition. Fine copy in fine jacket. Jacket protected in loose mylar sleeve.
Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World
Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Matthiessen, Peter [Introduction]; Lama, H.H. the Dalai [Foreword];
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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
Published by Folio Society, London, 2001
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: As New. As New Slipcase. First Edition, second printing. Jacket Condition: 'As New Slipcase' Condition: 'As New' Notes: Binding is square, tight, and solid. Decorative cloth boards by Jonathan Hitchen. Pages are unmarked, crisp, clean, and not bent.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1959
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 304 pp + 32 pp plates, acknowledgments, map of North American continent 8 watercolor plates & descriptions - unpaginated, Introduction, 12 chapters, 16 pp monochrome plates, Appndix I: The Rare, Declining & Extinct Vertebrate Animal Species North of the… Mexican Boundary & II: A Chronology of Representative Legislation Affecting North American Wildlife, Refernce Notes, bibliography, index. More than 100 line drawings of rare, extinct, and vanishing species. 7.1" x 10" off-white buckram spine backing, gilt letters on graen backstrip spine, & green cloth boards. Bronze DJ with b&w illustrations, white rear panel, unclipped in acetate protector. DJ with edgewear ato top and sbottom spine, rubbed white streaks. Man's impact on wildlife, from the earliest european settlements up to the 1950's. Size: Small Quarto. Bob Hines - line illustrations (illustrator). Book.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1959
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition. Small 4to, 304 pp., illus., including several color plates. Light exterior dustsoiling and a couple of specks to fore-edge, head of spine very slightly pulled, date in ink on front free endpaper. Jacket sunned, edgeworn, with chipping at head and heel of spine. Bob Hine…s (illustrator).
Published by NORTH POINT PRESS., NY, 2000
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Peter Matthiessen on the half-title page. (Dated in early 2000 with place being "Sagaponack.") Near fine in a priceclipped, otherwise fine dj. (Mild bump at bottom tip of one corner) (GC).
