True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
by Lance Richardson
This hefty, detailed biography by the award-winning writer of House of Nutter explores the public and private lives of Peter Matthiessen—wilderness lover, Zen practitioner, literary star, philanderer and one-time CIA agent—with all the ambition and questing spirit of its subject. A nuanced account of the driven, complicated man who wrote The Snow Leopard.
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