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One of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written, this is the true story of a journey to the high Himalayas in search of the snow leopard. In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo, as part of an expedition...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-11-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Bone by Bone
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In this magnificent novel, which is the conclusion to the celebrated Watson trilogy, E.J. Watson tells his own story, through his turbulent life, to his death at the hands of vigilantes. From his destitute childhood in South Carolina, and the terrible events which haunt...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Endocrine Disrupters
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Enables researchers to assess the effects of endocrine disrupters as well as comply with new environmental regulations Endocrine disrupters are chemicals?both man-made and natural?that interfere with the body's endocrine system, potentially resulting in adverse...

Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2013-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse
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On a hot June morning in 1975, a shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indians erupted on a reservation near Wounded Knee in South Dakota. Two FBI agents and one Indian died. Eventually four Indians, all members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) were indicted on...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-07-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Under The Mountain Wall
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In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Cloud Forest
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Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  African Silences
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African Silences is a spellbinding and sobering journey through Africa’s ravaged wildernesses. In 1978 and again in 1986, Matthiessen travelled through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Zaire and the CentralAfrican Republic to examine the fate of WestAfrican wildlife....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Lost Man's River
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When Watson’s son Lucius returns to the treacherous wilderness of the Everglades searching for the truth about his father’s death, the coast’s lawless inhabitants, alligator poachers and moonshiners hold close their secrets, and a deep uneasiness drifts through the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-05-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Blue Meridian
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In 1969 Peter Matthiessen set out with the expedition led by Peter Gimbel, whose aim was to find and film underwater for the first time the most dangerous of all sea creatures - the great white shark. Acting as the expedition's chronicler and spare hand (both on the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-05-31

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Télécharger le livre :  An African Trilogy
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During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent’s many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these journeys are three of the most impressive essays on the natural world of the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-05-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Shadow Country
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Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2010-07-01

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