Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

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 The Snow Leopard, Nine-Headed Dragon River reveals Matthiessen's most daring adventure of all: the quest for his spiritual roots.

Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 04/28/1998
Pages: 303
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.01w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9781570623677
ISBN10: 1570623678
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Zen
- Religion | Buddhism | Zen (see also Philosophy | Zen)

About the Author
Peter 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 Blue Meridian and in the film Blue Water, White Death. His fiction includes Race Rock; Partisans; Raditzer; At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and most recently Far Tortuga. His nonfiction includes The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for a National Book Award, The Snow Leopard, which won a National Book Award in 1979, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.