Snow leopard peter matthiessen summary

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Thin octavo. 85pp. Illustrated from photographs. Lightest hint of foxing on endpapers, else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with just a bit of wear, a small scratch on the front panel, and a hint of sunning on the spine. A very handsome copy. Briefly but boldly Inscribed on the half-title [Signed "Peter (Matthiessen)," as he knew the recipient]. Also briefly Inscribed on the title page by photographer Chauncey Loomis, under the phrase "Illustrated with photographs." (Loomis was a Dartmouth professor, Arctic historian, and documentary filmmaker, and is mentioned in the book as the Expedition's photographer.) Laid in is a Signed postcard from Matthiessen's wife, Maria, to the woman the book is Inscribed to (a bookseller), discussing the first editions of Matthiessen's books they possessed at the time. A slight association, twice Inscribed, and a handsome copy, to boot: presumably uncommon thus.

PERSONAL: Surname is pronounced "Math-e-son"; born May 22, 1927, in New York, NY; son of Erard A. (an architect) and Elizabeth (Carey) Matthiessen; married Patricia Southgate, February 8, 1951 (divorced, 1958); married Deborah Love, May 16, 1963 (deceased, 1972); married Maria Eckhart, November 28, 1980; children: (first marriage) Lucas, Sara C.; (second marriage) Rue, Alexander. Education: Attended Sorbonne, University of Paris, 1948–49; Yale University, B.A., 1950.

ADDRESSES: Home—Bridge Lane, Box 392, Sagaponack, Long Island, NY 11962. Agent—Candida Donadio Associates, Inc., 231 West 22nd St., New York, NY 10011.

CAREER: Writer, 1950–; Paris Review, New York, NY (originally Paris, France), cofounder, 1951, editor, 1951–. Former commercial fisherman; captain of deep-sea charter fishing boat, Montauk, Long Island, NY, 1954–56; member of expeditions to Alaska, Canadian Northwest Territories, Peru, Nepal, East Africa, Congo Basin, Siberia, India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Namibia, Botswana, and Outer Mongolia and of Harvard-Peabody Expedition

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