GUSSOW, Alan. Introduction by Richard Wilbur [Peter Mathiessen].
A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land.
First edition of A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land; from the library of Peter Matthiessen
San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, n.d..
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First edition of A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land; from the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front dust jacket flap. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea” (Michael Dirda). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land.
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