Far Tortuga - Hardcover

Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 000271020X ISBN 13: 9780002710206

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1989

Synopsis

This adventure story is set in the Caribbean and describes the last voyage of the "Lillias Eden", an old wooden schooner employed in the turtle trade. The author's previous books include "The Snow Leopard", "Men's Lives", "The Cloud Forest" and "Under the Mountain Wall".

About this title

About the Author

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 ofThe Paris Review. BesidesAt Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he has published six other works of fiction, includingFar TortugaandKilling Mister Watson. Mr. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer has resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among themThe Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, andThe Snow Leopard, which won it. He died in 2014."

From the Back Cover

Nine men aboard an old Caribbean schooner drift in search of the fishing grounds of their forefathers, to find only a modern world in which they have no place. This powerful story of the sea is also a resonantly symbolic account of the relations between man and nature.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000271020X
• ISBN 13: 9780002710206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416