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End of the Earth
America's foremost literary naturalist and author of the best-selling "The Snow Leopard" embarks on a wildlife adventure to the world's most unforgiving and remote land--driven by a prodigious curiosity and a desire to see the greatest repository of marine animals and birds on Earth.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
September 1st 2003
by National Geographic Books
(first published 2003)
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Peter Matthiessen writes about two journeys to Antarctica, one from Tierra del Fuego in South America to the shore of the Antarctic Peninula west of the Weddell Sea, and the second from Tasmania to the Ross Sea, almost on the other side of the continent.
On both occasions he travelled on Russian ships, which, because of the economic situation in Russia, no longer ply the northern coast of Russia, but find tourist trips at the other end of the world more profitable.
Matthi...more
On both occasions he travelled on Russian ships, which, because of the economic situation in Russia, no longer ply the northern coast of Russia, but find tourist trips at the other end of the world more profitable.
Matthi...more
A legendary polar explorer details trips to Antarctica showing his love and fascination about the white continent. Well done.
This is a book for those mesmerized by remote landscapes of austere beauty in which one can find and touch and ponder the detritus of wanderers who have passed long before. An abandoned hut, perfectly preserved, a pantry of unopened 19th century canned goods. In some, shelves of dusty books -- the goodreads once savored by doughty explorers during bitter storms in the impenetrable dark of antarctic winter.
Want to go there - to the ends of the earth - with PM
peter matthiessen. hero.
Recounts some trips Mattheissen made while working as a wildlife guide on an antarctic cruise ship. A lovely read. Not as philosophical as The Snow Leopard (the only other book of his that I've read) but introspective all the same. Beautiful descriptions of the landscape and wildlife. Interesting on birds in particular and some exlporation history. Made me want to go to Antarctica if I ever win the lottery.
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Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he has published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Raditzer. Mr. Matthiessen's ...more
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