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NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER: ZEN JOURNALS 1969-1985
by MATTHIESSEN, PETER
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VERY GOOD+ IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.
- ISBN 10
- 0394552512
- ISBN 13
- 9780394552514
- Seller
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BURLINGTON, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
BOSTON, MA: SHAMBHALA. VERY GOOD+ IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1986. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS VERY NICE WITHOUT ANY MARKING TO THE TEXT WITH A DAMP STAIN TO THE LOWER SPINE CORNER AREA OF THE FRONT COVER THAT OFFSET TO THE VERSO OF THE D.J. WHICH IS OTHERWISE FINE. A NICE COPY WITH A REMAINDER MARK AT THE TOP OF THE TEXT BLOCK. .
Synopsis
Peter Matthiessen, distinguished novelist, naturalist, journalist, and explorer, was born in New York City and has been a commercial fisherman and charterboat captain. 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. 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. 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.
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- Bookseller
- JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- COLLECTI014280I
- Title
- NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER: ZEN JOURNALS 1969-1985
- Author
- MATTHIESSEN, PETER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD+ IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- ISBN 10
- 0394552512
- ISBN 13
- 9780394552514
- Publisher
- SHAMBHALA
- Place of Publication
- BOSTON, MA
- Date Published
- PUB 1986
- Keywords
- JOURNALS
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