Peter Matthiessen
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An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas...
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. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeded, Matthiessen...
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. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeded, Matthiessen...
7) In paradise
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"An American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father"--
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Takes the reader back to E.J. Watson's beginnings as a young boy growing up in a down-on-its-luck Southern family during and after the war, with a vicious father a mother who scorns her ill-bred spouse but won't protect her son. The boy's constant betrayal by those around him is neatly balanced by his own implacable savagery.