Nine-Headed Dragon River by Peter Matthiessen

Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 by Peter Matthiessen. First Edition/First Printing. Biography.

"In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway—guests of his wife, a new student of Zen. Thirteen years later, Matthiessen was ordained a Buddhist monk."