biography
pronunciation:
[mathesen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, travel writer, naturalist, and explorer, born in New York City, USA. He made anthropological and natural history expeditions to Alaska, the Canadian Northwest Territories, Peru, New Guinea, Africa, Nicaragua, and Nepal. His novels include Killing Master Watson (1990) and Bone By Bone (1999). He has also written a number of ecological and natural history studies, and won the National Book Award with the best-selling The Snow Leopard (1978), his account of a trek across the Tibetan plateau to the Crystal Mountain. |
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