Peter Matthiessen Audio & Video

In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard.

Peter Matthiessen, author of the acclaimed "The Snow Leopard," joins Dean Nelson for a conversation on the art of finding and telling compelling stories in the second of three special programs from the 10th annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University.

Matthiessen reveals a complex historical struggle between American Indians and the U.S. government and how it influenced the events that lead to the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.

Filled with observations and descriptions of the people and the fading wildlife of South America, The Cloud Forest is Matthiessens incisive, wry report of his expedition into some of the last and most exotic wild terrain in the world.

Author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, national Book Award-winner Peter Matthiessen is an accomplished naturalist and one of the most acclaimed writers in the world....

Peter Matthiessen skillfully and magically brings East Africa to vivid life: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers, the exotic animals and breathtaking landscapes, and the areas turbulent natural, political, and social histories.

The timely story of how the forces of change converge on a small tribe of Niaruna Indians living in the heart of the Amazon rain forest....

Set in the South American jungle, this thriller follows the clash between two misplaced gringos, one who has come to convert the Indians to Christianity and one who has been hired to kill them.

Would you believe that one man championed the cause of Native Americans with Leonard Peltier...

Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen's epic re-imagining of E. J. Watson, the legendary outlaw of the wild Florida frontier, who relentlessly drove himself toward his own violent end at the hands of his neighbors. Originally broken into three novels, this new distillation brilliantly realizes the author's original vision.