Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 (Shambhala Dragon Editions) - Softcover

Matthiessen, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570623678 ISBN 13: 9781570623677

Publisher: Shambhala, 1998

Synopsis

In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned form Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Japanese Zen masters in his driveway - guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling "The Snow Leopard, Nine-Headed Dragon River" reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.

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Review:

"Very few writers have the courage, inner experience, and literary technique to take us into the reaches of mystic awareness. Matthiessen has; his prose is among the finest of our time--at once sensual and austere, sinewy, yet full of warmth, eloquent yet reverent, polished clean by silence and awe. Nine-Headed Dragon River is a clear gift to us from a complex man who has schooled himself to speak of central things with a most honorable exactitude."--Andrew Harvey, Vogue

"Remarkable, memorable nonfiction. Matthiessen's prose is as strong and pure as ever."--Duncan Spencer, Washington Post

"Peter Matthiessen's book embodies the spirit of Zen in America."--Hakuyu T. Maezumi, Zen Center of Los Angeles

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1570623678
• ISBN 13: 9781570623677
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 303