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    <body><![CDATA[ Author Peter Matthessen is a naturalist and documentary filmmaker. At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a novel set in the Amazon. The same year he wrote the novel he also worked on the famous but somewhat controversial documentary Dead Birds.<br/><br/>At Play in the Fields of the Lord is another...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3916825">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I agree with a previous reviewer that this is similar in theme to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. A group of American evangelical missionaries move to the Amazon to convert the natives. This is a dark story leaving the reader with more questions than answers.  The prose is excellent (albeit lengthy at t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14898621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been wanting to read a Peter Matthiessen novel for such a long time. I started to read one several years ago - the one about Nepal - but after I'd read fifty pages I realized I would like it one day but that I couldn't concentrate enough to enjoy it then. I have fewer excuses and fewer distract...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1160480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A penetrating, visceral novel that plays out in a backwater hell-hole village deep in the Bolivian Amazon. The cast of characters includes fundamentalist Christian missionaries, a drunken and thoroughly debauched military commander, two professional mercenaries, and a tribe of pre-contact Amazonian ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35778764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant.  Such earthily irreverent work reminds me of Tom Robbins at his best.<br/><br/>A family comes to Remate del Males to help expand the missionary founded by a young couple.  The missionaries want to save the natives not only from their paganism but also from the catalicos who have been in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38479194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book ever, at least so far as I recall.  Protestant missionaries, Catholic missionaries, and a Lakota con-man turned his own sort of missionary in the Amazon jungle.  Everyone's flawed, everyone has a plan to save the Natives, and everyone loses their minds a bit.  The most likeable char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14923548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really interesting novel about missionaries trying to convert an indigenous community in Peru back in the 1960s.  But about a lot more...sounds weird, but actually pretty good.  Really excellent writer. Some missionaries we met said it puts them in a bad light...so depends on the reader of course.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While searching for Shadow Country, I came across Matthiessen's well-acclaimed book on Native American confrontation with evangelistic missionaries, something personally intriguing since taking a social science course on ethnocentric conflicts during my Master's of Liberal Arts pursuits.  The movie ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55665218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A flaming soul-wringer of a book. This tale of repressed and horny Missionaries and crazed Mercenaries pestering the wild Indians of South America contains more sweaty hysteria and seething malarial madness than Heart Of darkness or The Wages of Fear. An astonishingly powerful novel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	To quote one of the reviews: &quot;A powerful novel of violent adventure where man finds religious rebirth in the womb of nature.&quot; I found this book revealing in its depiction of religious zealots like Huben and Hazel who are more interested in themselves than in humanity, and sad in the misgu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45076234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this while travelling in S America for a couple months. I heartily endorse reading geographically related books while travelling, as it really ramps up the ambience and your immersion in where you are. The book itself is a great story and has it all -- naive missionaries, shady outlaws, indig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54374171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one has been on my bookshelf for decades, I think, and I thought I'd read it, I guess because I saw the movie -- but I hadn't and now I have.  I like Matthiessen's writing about nature a lot and this one is set in the Amazon as missionaries confront one of the last untouched groups of natives. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41883297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it!  This book was written in the 60s, so some of the details may seem dated, but it is a fantastic character study.  The juxtaposition of the earnest missionary and the bitter &quot;gun for hire&quot; is fascinating and disturbing.  Their personal story is set within the larger story of how m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46271518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Second of the Peter M. books I'd read. It was a good read and for the most part held my interest even through the slooooow sections. You'll have to try it for yourself. After reading this one I really found myself why the hype about Peter Matthiessen. I find his work entertaining to a deree but stil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47173070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Salah satu dari sedikit buku yang aku anggap lebih bagus filmnya daripada buku aslinya.<br/>Filmnya disutradarai Hector Babenco, dan herannya Tom Waits ikutan main. Mungkin ada Tom Waits di situ yg bikin aku bilang bagus. Subjektif sekali memang :D]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exploration into greed, ruthlessness and the blind hypocracy of Christian missionaries attending to the spiritual &quot;needs&quot; of indiginous Amazonian peoples--poetic.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A rich, complex novel about an evangelical missionary and a mercenary of North American Indian origin among the natives of South America. Despite its complexity &amp; promise, it didn't seem to fulfill its promise.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book about the damage wreaked by fundamentalist missionaries on native populations, in this case in the Amazon. It's been made into an excellent film. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was recommended by my dad. If you enjoyed The Poison Wood Bible, you will enjoy this, similar themes, more masculine narrative.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I've read in a long time. While nothing in it is surprising, the writing is superb and the characters are so well-developed. A really amazing book...with an ending that is 100% amazing.]]></body>
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