Introduction by Peter Matthiessen (22 results)

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 numerous notes and sketches. This volume presents Catlin's journals and is illustrated with reproductions of his paintings." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. …

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

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 century. 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 522pp; Index; b/w illustrations. Contents clean and unmarked. No ownership name; no library markings.

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.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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 highly endangered Siberian tigers.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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, and your Baja experience will be like no other. With 181 color illustrations, end-page maps **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**. Terrance Moore - Photography (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 368 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 560 pages. 7.75x5.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

8vo [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.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 185 pages. 9.25x6.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

[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.

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 Hines (illustrator).…

First edition of this stunning tribute to the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea" (Michael Dirda). With Matthiessen's bookplate to the pastedown and his underlines and marginalia throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. "The birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, their epic journeys to populate it, and the variety of their lives that unfold on it, are compellingly represented in this beautiful book" (E.O. Wilson).…