INDIAN COUNTRY
by Peter Matthiessen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670397873
- ISBN 13
- 9780670397877
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY: Viking Press, 1984. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light creasing to inner flaps. Inexplicable ink smudges to lower text block. Maps to covers verso & endpapers. Native American history. Portions first published in magazines & newspapers. Exploration & encroachment of white power on sacred grounds of Native Americans --- tragically, a new, non-military type of supression. Zen Bhuddhist, novelist Peter Matthiessen (1927 - 2014), was a CIA officer, a co-founder of the Paris Review & twice winner of the Nat'l Book Award (The Snow Leopard, 1979, & Shadow Country, 2008). Superb account & guide to the living worlds of tribes of the Miccosukee, Hopi, Cherokee, Mohawk, Urok, Karuk, Lakota, Chumsah, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute & Navajo lands, where irrevocable destruction to Indian lands & ways of life were destroyed under the banner of "progress" & "enlightenment" in the formation of The-US-of-A. 338 pgs in 12 chapters.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014316
- Title
- INDIAN COUNTRY
- Author
- Peter Matthiessen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0670397873
- ISBN 13
- 9780670397877
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- History/North American Indians/Land Tenure/Human Ecology/Religon/Mythology
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- Philosophy;
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