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Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen

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Author Biography

Name: Peter Matthiessen
Birth Date: May 22, 1927
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer, Editor

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Biography of Peter Matthiessen
7164 words, approx. 23.9 pages
Peter Matthiessen is among a handful of American authors to be nominated for the National Book Award in both fiction and nonfiction--for the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) and the travel books The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972) and The Sn...
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Biography of Peter Matthiessen
5044 words, approx. 16.8 pages
Peter Matthiessen was born on May 22, 1927, in New York City to Elizabeth Carey and Erard Matthiessen. "I am a New Yorker by birth, not inclination; I have never remained there very long. "My formative years left me unformed; despite kind family, superio...
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Biography of Peter Matthiessen
4086 words, approx. 13.6 pages
While Peter Matthiessen's publications include several well-received novels, his reputation as a writer rests largely on his nonfiction nature books, which passionately yet scientifically document the often uneasy balance between human existence and the...
 


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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Fact and fiction: the development of ecological form in Peter Matthiessen's 'Far Tortuga.'
06/22/1994: 7,776 words, approx. 26 pages
Peter Matthiessen's novel 'Far Tortuga' has a form which mirrors its concern with ecology. The novel incorporates the author's experiences on a turtle boat, along with a Zen attitude to life. The story covers the capture of turtles at sea, the sinking of the...
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The Southern Review
The Dry Tortugas. (poem)
09/22/1996: 377 words, approx. 1 pages
The seaplane lifts off in a surge of spray like a heavy duck, and the gentleman in suspenders yells "ee-YOW" in triumph, and we're all together now, the old radical from Wisconsin in the blue Lenin cap and Windjammer...
 


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