Penguin Random House South Africa
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Chatto & Windus, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9781784743017
Published: December 2025
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Page Extent: 736
Format: Hardback
RRP 800.00
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**A FINALIST FOR THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY**
**A NEW YORKER & VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2025**
'Magnificent' ROBERT MACFARLANE
'Fascinating' KATHERINE MAY
'Irresistible' KATHERINE BUCKNELL
'Perceptive and consistently readable' CAL FLYN
Discover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen - writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master - in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant.
Author of The Snow Leopard, co-founder of the Paris Review and the only writer to have ever won the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure of twentieth-century American literary culture. He was also, briefly, an undercover...