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De sneeuwluipaard
Vlak na de dood van zijn vrouw vertrekt de schrijver Peter Matthiessen, samen met de bioloog George Schaller, voor een barre tocht van meer dan 400 kilometer, dwars door de Himalaya. Hun doel is het bereiken van de Kristalberg, hoog op het Tibetaanse plateau, om daar de bharal – de blauwe schapen – te observeren tijdens hun bronsttijd in de herfst. Omdat de Lama van Shey Gompa, het oude boeddhistische heiligdom op de Kristalberg, het doden van dieren verboden had, zouden de bharal daar talrijk zijn, en waar veel schapen voorkomen zou eveneens het zeldzaamste en mooiste dier kunnen verschijnen: de ‘onzichtbare’ sneeuwluipaard. De hoop om van dit haast mythische beest ook maar een glimp op te vangen was al reden genoeg voor de hele reis. Elke zware tocht is een ervaring die het leven van de reiziger op de proef stelt, maar voor Peter Matthiessen, die zich al jaren met het Zenboeddhisme bezighield, was het eveneens een belangrijk innerlijk keerpunt. In flitsen overziet hij zijn leven, zijn huwelijk, de relatie met zijn kinderen en zijn zoeken naar een doel, een bestemming. Steeds dieper dringt hij door in de betekenis van zijn eigen leven en vergelijkt dit met de Tibetaanse levensfilosofie van de mensen uit de streek waar hij doorheen trekt. Zijn diepe persoonlijke betrokkenheid maakt De Sneeuwluipaard tot een schitterend en zeer bewogen verslag, een ‘ware pelgrimstocht’.
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Il leopardo delle nevi
Nella primavera del 1972, Peter Matthiessen si imbatte a New York nel celebre naturalista e zoologo George Schaller, che gli avanza subito una proposta: unirsi a lui, nell'autunno dell'anno successivo, per una spedizione fino al Nepal nordoccidentale, vicino alla frontiera tibetana, dove non è raro avvistare il più bello e più affascinante dei grandi felini: il leopardo delle nevi, il mitico animale di cui tutti parlano e che nell'ultimo quarto di secolo solo due occidentali, tra cui Schaller stesso, hanno visto davvero. L'idea di visitare il Nepal, di approssimarsi passo passo alla più imponente catena montuosa del mondo, di arrivare alla Montagna di Cristallo e andare alla ricerca di una leggendaria creatura, è così allettante per Matthiessen che, il giorno di settembre del 1973 fissato per l'appuntamento con Schaller, si presenta puntualissimo, e perfettamente equipaggiato per la spedizione, all'albergo di Katmandu prescelto.
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Der Schneeleopard
Im Visier der schönsten Raubkatze der Welt: eine Reise an den Rand des Himmels und an die Grenzen unserer WahrnehmungIm Herbst 1973 bricht Peter Matthiessen mit dem Biologen George Schaller in die höchsten ganzjährig bewohnten Bergtäler der Erde auf: ins nepalesische Dolpo. Hier trotzen Menschen und Tiere extremen Bedingungen ein Leben voller Schärfe und Kontur ab. Und seit Jahrhunderten blüht hier eine Tradition des tibetischen Buddhismus. Schaller will das Brunftverhalten hochalpiner Blauschafe dokumentieren, Matthiessen die Trauer über den Krebstod seiner Frau verarbeiten. Beide verbindet die Faszination für den geheimnisvollsten Bewohner des Dolpos: den Schneeleoparden. In diesem Meisterwerk, für das Matthiessen gleich zweimal - 1979 und 1980 in unterschiedlichen Kategorien - den National Book Award erhielt, verbinden sich naturkundliche Klarheit, spirituelle Wachsamkeit und die lyrische Kunst der Sprachverknappung zu einem lebensverändernden Leseerlebnis. Noch nie war dieses literarische Zeugnis für den unermesslichen Reichtum der Welt, der geistige wie materielle Entsagung bedeuten kann, dringlicher und zeitgemäßer als heute.Überarbeitet und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Bernhard Malkmus.
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Lost Mans River
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 region like a low swamp mist.
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Bone by Bone
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 him for the rest of his days the narrative shifts to the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Here Watson establishes himself as a successful sugar-cane farmer trying in vain to escape his past and the uncontrollable vicious side of his nature which is ultimately his downfall.Intelligent a devoted husband and a lover a stern father and a man capable of cruelty and cold-blooded murder Watson is a character staggeringly real in his complexity. Bone by Bone confronts not only the racism brutality and entrepreneurial greed of the American South at the turn of the century but also the paradox at the heart of human nature: our capacity for fierce love compassion and unspeakable violence.
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Under The Mountain Wall
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 two seasons. The result was this classic account not of the expedition but of a lost culture; the Kurelu's timeless rhythms of work and play of warriorship feasting and funerals. In Under the Mountain Wall Matthiessen illuminates the lives of the Kurelu's with respect and sympathy capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow Mountains.
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In Paradise
The only writer ever to win National Book Awards for both fiction and non-fiction
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In paradiso
L'americano Clements Olin, docente universitario e poeta di origini polacche, partecipa a un ritiro spirituale che si tiene ad Auschwitz cinquant'anni dopo i mostruosi eventi che ne hanno inciso il nome nella storia. Olin torna in quella Polonia che gli diede i natali, portando con sé amare riflessioni sul proprio presente, vaghi dubbi sul futuro e un vergognoso segreto del passato. Ma nulla di quanto ha dentro è sufficiente a prepararlo al turbinio di anime nel quale si troverà costretto ad aggirarsi. Le anime di quanti come lui hanno preso parte a questo evento commemorativo, parenti delle vittime o dei colpevoli, ebrei, tedeschi, polacchi, francesi, americani, preti, monache, rabbini e monaci zen. E le tante, troppe anime smarrite e dimenticate, strappate alla vita con sistematica e brutale malvagità. Il ritiro si trasforma così in un'arena di regolamenti di conti, ma anche in un'occasione di inattese vicinanze. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
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 murder charges Twenty-two years late one of them Leonard Peltier is still serving two consecutive life sentences. The story of what really happened and why Matthiessen is convinced of Peltier's innocence forms the central narrative in this classic work of investigative reporting. But Mathiessen also reveals the larger issues behind the Pine Ridge shoot-out: systematic discrimination by the white authorities; corporate determination to exploit the uranium deposits in the Black Hills; the breaking of treaties; and FBI hostility towards the AIM which was set up to bring just such issues to light. When this book was first published it was immediately the subject of two $25 million-dollar legal actions that attempted to suppress it permanently. After eight years of court battles ending with a Supreme Court judgement Mathiessen won the right to tell Peltier's and his people's story.
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Blue Meridian
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 surface and below) Matthiessen accompanied the crew from the Carribean to the whaling grounds off the Durban coast to various islands in the Indian Ocean to Ceylon and finally to success off the bleak south coast of Australia.Blue Meridian records the awesome experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks the beauties of strange seas and landscapes and the camaraderie humour and tension of people who live in close proximity and risk their lives day by day.
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Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)
"Reading this book becomes an act of self-confrontation, for Peter Matthiessen has made it clear that Cesar Chavez's battle is not only for the agricultural workers but for the redemption of the country. In illuminating the intactness of this one man, Matthiessen provides a measure for the rest of us."--Nat Hentoff
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The Cloud Forest
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 the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and vast skies of Patagonia. The result is an incisive and marvellously well-observed journal by a born writer and naturalist a voyage of exploration among the people places and fading wildlife of this most exotic and mysterious of continents.
€ 26,30