The shorebirds of North America.
New York: Viking Press, (1967. first edition). Small folio, colour plates, inscription, a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
New York: Viking Press, (1967. first edition). Small folio, colour plates, inscription, a fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce in this condition. More
London: Harvill Press, 2002. Octavo, colour plates, fine copy in dustwrapper. A chronicle of Peter Mathiessen's many journeys in search of the world's fifteen species of cranes. Describes the crane's struggle to survive in a rapidly developing world. Beautifully illustrated by Robert Bateman. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2003. Octavo, colour photographs. Fine copy in dustwrapper. "Peter Matthiessen is, of course, our greatest living prose-poet of landscape, wild creatures, and the fraught relations between humans and the rest of nature. With his expert eye and graceful voice, Matthiessen is the ultimate field trip..... More