{"product_id":"nineheaded-dragon-river-isbn-9781570623677","title":"Nine-Headed Dragon River","description":"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  \u003ci\u003eThe Snow Leopard, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNine-Headed Dragon River \u003c\/i\u003e reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.\"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.  \u003ci\u003eNine-Headed Dragon River \u003c\/i\u003e 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,  \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable, memorable nonfiction. Matthiessen's prose is as strong and pure as ever.\"—Duncan Spencer,  \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Matthiessen's book embodies the spirit of Zen in America.\"—Hakuyu T. Maezumi, Zen Center of Los AngelesPeter Matthiessen, distinguished novelist, naturalist, journalist, and explorer, was born in New York City and has been a commercial fisherman and charterboat captain. He participated as a diver in the worldwide search for the great white shark that culminated in his book \u003ci\u003eBlue Meridian \u003c\/i\u003e and in the film \u003ci\u003eBlue Water, White Death. \u003c\/i\u003e His fiction includes \u003ci\u003eRace Rock; Partisans; Raditzer; At Play in the Fields of the Lord, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was nominated for a National Book Award; and most recently \u003ci\u003eFar Tortuga. \u003c\/i\u003e His nonfiction includes \u003ci\u003eThe Tree Where Man Was Born, \u003c\/i\u003e which was nominated for a National Book Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Snow Leopard, \u003c\/i\u003e which won a National Book Award in 1979, and \u003ci\u003eIn the Spirit of Crazy Horse. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302354342117,"sku":"NP9781570623677","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781570623677.jpg?v=1767733759","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/nineheaded-dragon-river-isbn-9781570623677","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}