En otoño de 1973, el escritor Peter Matthiessen y el zoólogo George Schaller emprendieron una expedición a la Montaña de Cristal, en la meseta del Tíbet, para estudiar los hábitos de un animal no muy conocido:...
País de sombras es la historia poética, mítica y devastadora de uno de los primeros terratenientes del estado de Florida, E. J. Watson, personaje histórico que cometió múltiples asesinatos y murió a su vez...
In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This...
"Beautiful and original..a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." â Newsweek
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
Freshwater field tests are an integral part of the process of hazard assessment of pesticides and other chemicals in the environment. This book brings together international experts on microcosms and mesocosms for a critical appraisal of theory and practi...