The Cloud Forest

Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)

Signed 1961 First Printing, Viking Press, New York
Gold letters on full black cloth w/design blind stamped on the front. NEAR FINE in like Brodart protected dust jacket. Map endpapers of South America and routes taken. Signed on the title page by Matthiessen. List of Illustrations. Maps. Index. 280pp. Illustrated with over 40 b&w photos. ***Matthiessen won The National Book Award three times in both non-fiction and fiction titles. The Snow Leopard won in 1979 and 1980, in different categories, and Shadow Country won in 2014. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea." ~Michael Dirda