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One September, the author set out with a field biologist to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the bharal, but also hoped to see the snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical. This book gives an account of an inner journey.

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In 1969 the author set out with the expedition led by Peter Gimbel, whose aim was to find and film underwater for the first time the great white shark. Here he offers a chronicle of the expedition.

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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. After eight years of court battles, ending with a Supreme Court judgement, Mathiessen won the right to tell Peltiers and his peoples story.

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When Watsons son Lucius returns to the treacherous wilderness of the Everglades searching for the truth about his fathers death, the coasts lawless inhabitants, alligator poachers and moonshiners hold close their secrets, and a deep uneasiness drifts through the region like a low swamp mist.

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From the daily lives of wild herdsmen and the drama of predator kills to the field biologists investigating Africa's wild creatures and the anthropologists seeking humanity's origins in the rift valley, this National Book Award finalist is a classic of journalistic observation.

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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.

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This volume contains three pieces of travel writing by Peter Matthiessen, who joined a number of expeditions to Africa in the 1970s and 1980s - "The Tree Where Man Was Born", "African Silences" and "Sand Rivers". The book contains an introduction by the author.

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In June, 1975, a shoot-out between FBI and American Indians erupted near Wounded Knee. The confrontation ended with the death of three men and four Indians were charged with murder. This book suggests that one of them, Leonard Peltier, may be innocent.

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A powerful, epic tale of America's rise and descent, from the Civil War to the Great Depression.

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'A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among' Paul Theroux

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This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas.

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The author recounts his voyage through the islands around Antarctica, describing the region's wildlife as well as the region itself while sharing historical information about the pioneers and adventurers who preceded him.

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America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-of-beyond voyage to the world's most unforgiving land, the islands off Antarctica's northern ice shelf, and to that second most remote place on earth, South Georgia Island.