Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea

Remarkable firsthand view of a lost culture in all its simplicity and violence by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927 to 2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise. - Peter Matthiessen is the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the National Book Award for both non-fiction (The Snow Leopard, in two categories, in 1979 - 1980) fiction (Shadow Country, in 2008). A co-founder of The Paris Review. a world-renowned naturalist, explorer, activist, he died in April 2014.