Ich bin hier geboren und aufgewachsen ich kenne jeden Halm und jedes Sandkorn doch das ist ein Trugschluss. Diese Insel ist f r mich neu und unbekannt. Sylt - verlassen und menschenleer. Susanne Matthiessen ist berw ltigt als sie ihre Heimatinsel im Lockdown zu... Lees meer.

The result is an incisive and marvellously well-observed journal by a born writer and naturalist a voyage of exploration among the people places and fading wildlife of this most exotic and mysterious of continents. Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his tra... Lees meer.

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Esoterie - In zijn Zen-dagboeken beschrijft de beroemde bioloog en ontdekkingsreiziger Peter Matthiessen zijn boeiendste reis. die naar evenwicht in de natuur en in zichzelf...... Lees meer.

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In een adembenemend landschap een van de laatste echte wildernissen op aarde vecht de Siberische tijger voor zijn overleving. Er zijn er nu nog enkele duizenden wier voortbestaan wordt bedreigd door oprukkende bos- en mijnbouw en door stropers. Peter Matthiessen reis... Lees meer.

A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier s claims of innocence arguing for a new trial.... Lees meer.

On a hot June morning in 1975 a shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indians erupted on a reservation near Wounded Knee in South Dakota. Two FBI agents and one Indian died. Eventually four Indians all members of the American Indian Movement AIM were indicted on... Lees meer.

In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible living among the Kurelu for... Lees meer.

CURIOUS ANIMAL BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2014 PICK In Paradise tells the story of a group of men and women who come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II concentration camp and the grief rage and upsetting revelations that surface dur... Lees meer.

At an outpost in the South American jungle conflict erupts between two misplaced outsiders--Martin Quarrier who has undertaken a mission to convert the local Indians to his own form of Christianity and Lewis Moon a mercenary out to kill them... Lees meer.

The authoritative account of Islam s schism that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632 soon after the Prophet Muhammad died a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. Most Muslims argued that the l... Lees meer.

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Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia from th... Lees meer.

A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence was known for designing ...... Lees meer.