TITLE: Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean AUTHOR: Jonathan White PUBLICATION DATE: 2017 FORMAT: ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59534-806-7 ___________________________________ NOTE: I received a copy of this book from NetGalley. This review is my honest opinion of the book. __________...
DNF. Damn. This book started out so well. However, after only a few pages it seems to have turned into a version of Log from the Sea of Cortez, complete with philosophical and religious musings on the author's own life, his experimenting with different drugs, and his understanding of Buddhism - ...
“Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterrupted experience in which body, mind, and nature and the same.” (42) Matthiessen’s book is part travelogue, part naturalist observations, and part comi...
The point of life is to help others through it— who said that? We must help the living while we can, since the dead have no more need of us. This took me longer to read than I thought it would and when I finished it I was relieved to have finally finished it. I spent the time I was reading it having...
Professor D. Olin Clements (What does the “D” stand for and what is the ultimate implication of the name?), born in Poland, but raised in America, is doing research for a monograph he is writing. He returns to Poland, a place he left as a child, and spends time at a retreat in a former concentration...
After nearly 70 years, what is left to say about the Shoah that hasn't already been said? Peter Matthiessen's masterful novel, In Paradise, reveals that there are still many questions. In Paradise also shows its readers just how many of those questions remain unanswerable, even after seven decades.....
Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard is his account of his two months in Nepal. He was invited along by field biologist George Schaller on his expedition to study Himalayan Blue Sheep--and perhaps catch a glimpse of the elusive snow leopard. (Said in the book to consist of only 120 remaining individuals. ...
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