Yanatili River, 154, 160, 163, 169
Yarina Cocha, Lake, 52–54, 254, 256
Yavero River, 196
Yellowlegs, 12–13
Yuca, 160, 214
Yucca cactus, 66, 71
Yungas, 74
Yuqui Indians, 74
Zacharias, a Quechua, 177–78, 181
Zoos, 23
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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Far Tortuga
“This novel is Matthiessen at his best – a masterfully spun yarn, a little other - worldly, a dreamlike momentum … Like everything of his, it is also a deep declaration of love for the planet”
THOMAS PYNCHON
On the River Styx
“These compelling tales of elemental fear and ever-pressing silence culminate in the great, dark and desperate final story, a masterful piece of work by one of our best writers”
DON DELILLO
Partisans
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The Snow Leopard
“Matthiessen’s triumph is a book that will outlive him. It is a masterpiece”
JOHN HILLABY
Under the Mountain Wall
A CHRONICLE OF TWO SEASONS IN STONE AGE NEW GUINEA “One thinks of Darwin’s Voyage of the HMS Beagle. But Matthiessen is a better writer than Darwin and infinitely more imaginative”
Atlanta Journal
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
“Admirably demonstrates the plight of native Americans … One of those rare books that permanently changes one’s consciousness”
ALAM M. DERSHOWITZ, New York Times
“Peter Matthiessen presents a convincing case not only for a retrial of Leonard Peltier, but also for a re-examination of the real cost of the American Dream – in human lives, in the mockery of justice, in a squandered earth”
CAROL VON STRUM, USA Today
African Silences
“The skilled naturalist writer is almost as rare as the Congo peacock or the pygmy elephant – both subjects of the quest Peter Matthiessen conducts in African Silences. ‘Skilled’ is almost an insulting understatement for Matthiessen’s sharply captivating prose, as he mordantly digs away at the countries of west and central Africa, exposing their physical and moral corruptions in a manner somewhere between Orwell and V. S. Naipaul”
GARY MEAD, Financial Times
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