Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
Zen journals, 1969-82
$64.00
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
24 July 1998
Summary
In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk. Written in the same format as his best-selling "The Snow Leopard, " "Nine-Headed Dragon River " reveals Matthiessen‘s most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781570623677 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1570623678 |
| Author: | Peter Matthiessen |
| Publisher: | Shambhala |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 1998 |
| Weight: | 463g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 153mm x 229mm |
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“Very few writers have the courage, inner experience, and literary technique to take us into the reaches of mystic awareness. Matthiessen has; his prose is among the finest of our time–at once sensual and austere, sinewy, yet full of warmth, eloquent yet reverent, polished clean by silence and awe. Nine-Headed Dragon River is a clear gift to us from a complex man who has schooled himself to speak of central things with a most honorable exactitude.”–Andrew Harvey, Vogue
“Remarkable, memorable nonfiction. Matthiessen’s prose is as strong and pure as ever.”–Duncan Spencer, Washington Post
“Peter Matthiessen’s book embodies the spirit of Zen in America.”–Hakuyu T. Maezumi, Zen Center of Los Angeles
About The Author
Peter Matthiessen
Winner of the National Book Award and the American Book Award, Peter Matthiessen is the author of over fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including “The Snow Leopard ” (1978), “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” (1965), “Far Tortuga” (1975), “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse” (1992), and “Bone by Bone” (1999). Ilan Stavans teaches at Amherst College. He is the author of “The Hispanic Condition” (1995), “Art and Anger” (1996), and “The Riddle of Cantinflas” (1998), and editor of “The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays” (1997).
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