Peter Matthiessen
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Peter Matthiessen is one of America's leading nature writers and novelists. His adventures have led him around the world, from the Arctic to Nepal and South America. Peter has co-led VENT tours to Namibia and Botswana, Tanzania, Churchill, India and Bhutan, Texas, Peru, the Dry Tortugas, and Mexico. Among the awards he has received are the Brandeis Award, the John Burroughs Medal, the John Steinbeck Award, the Edith Wharton Award, the Orion-John Hay Award, the Society of Conservation Biologists Award, and the Heinz Award.
Peter's many books have dealt with a tremendous array of subjects, but throughout all of them, both his non-fiction and fiction, there is the theme of man and his relation to the natural world. Some of the most outstanding of these books are Wildlife in America, The Cloud Forest, Under the Mountain Wall, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Shorebirds of North America, The Tree Where Man Was Born, Far Tortuga, The Snow Leopard (which won the National Book Award), Sand Rivers, and the Watson Trilogy (Killing Mr. Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone). His book about cranes, The Birds of Heaven, illustrated with paintings by Robert Bateman, was published in 2001. End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica was published in 2003.
Peter is a lifelong naturalist with keen powers of observation. He is also a passionate conservationist, a terrific raconteur, and is great fun to travel with.