Book description
When Watson's son Lucius returns to the treacherous wilderness of the
Everglades searching for the truth about his father's death, the coast's
lawless inhabitants, alligator poachers and moonshiners hold close their
secrets, and a deep uneasiness drifts through the region like a low
swamp mist. Peter Matthiessen is a naturalist, explorer and writer.
His works of fiction include
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
, Far Tortuga
and the acclaimed 'Watson Trilogy'. His explorations have resulted in
many fine works of non-fiction, among them Birds of Heaven
, The Cloud Forest
and The Tree where Man was Born.
In November 2008, at age 81, he received his second National Book Award
for Shadow Country,
an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s.
