Nine-Headed Dragon River

Name: Nine-Headed Dragon River
ISBN: 9781570623677

Peter Matthiessen

296 pages · about 5 hours
First published 1986
5 editions

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1 About this book

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Good for readers who want: Buddhism and a true life story.

Religious life
Zen Buddhism
Biography
Voyages and travels
Buddhism
Doctrines
Diaries
Religion

2 About Peter Matthiessen

1927–2014

Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). He was also a prominent environmental activist.

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