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Shadow country [electronic resource] : a new rendering of the Watson legend / Peter Matthiessen.
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9781588368249 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1588368246 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 9781588368249 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 1588368246 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- Physical Description: xvi, 892 p. : map ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Modern Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2008.
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| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Random House Publishing Group, 2008. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 4643 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 1587 KB). |
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| Subject: | Watson, Edgar J., 1855-1910 > Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction. Everglades (Fla.) > Fiction. Murderers > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
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Peter Matthiessen has written eight novels, including At Play in the Fields of the Lord (nominated for the National Book Award) and Far Tortuga, and also a book of short stories, On the River Styx. His parallel career as a naturalist and environmental activist has produced numerous acclaimed works of nonfiction, most of them serialized in The New Yorker; these include The Tree Where Man Was Born (another National Book Award nominee) and The Snow Leopard (a National Book Award winner). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974.
