Tibet: Through the Red Box.

SIS, Peter. [Peter Matthiessen].

$100.00

Item Number: 139731

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998.

First edition of the author’s moving retelling of his father’s diary penned during an accidental expedition to Tibet. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea” (Michael Dirda). Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

In this very personal book, Peter Sis tells the story of his discovery of the diary his father kept when he has lost in Tibet in the mid-1950s through a kaleidoscope fusion of truth, dreams, and memory.