Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . He's also worked as a commercial fisherman and led or been a member of expeditions that have gone to the farthest corners of the globe. It was such fun to do. It was experimental but not the kind of self-conscious experimentation you see so much.
Writers love it, but some critics have a problem with the dialect.
If you get 30 pages into it, you'll be fine. Matthiessen is right about other writers loving Far Tortuga . Where Man Was Born . The Snow Leopard , which won the National Book Award in 1979, is a wonderful travelogue and one of the best available introductions to the practice of Zen Buddhism. Matthiessen has studied Zen Buddhism for almost 30 years and is a sensei, or teacher, of Zen.