Wildlife in America

By Peter Matthiessen

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

By Peter Matthiessen

African Silences

By Peter Matthiessen

Lost Man's River

By Peter Matthiessen

A story of epic scope and ambition, Lost Man's River confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives. Luci...

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

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Shadow Country

By Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up i...

On the River Styx

By Peter Matthiessen

Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works...

African Silences

By Peter Matthiessen

African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrai...

Killing Mister Watson

By Peter Matthiessen

Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawle...

Lost Man's River

By Peter Matthiessen

One of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction presents the second novel in his Watson trilogy.   Lucius Watson is obsessed with lea...