In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway--guests of his wife, a new student of Zen.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk.
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway--guests of his wife, a new student of Zen
