Endangered Peoples.

First edition of Art Davidson's bittersweet work on the magnificent diversity and beauty of indigenous peoples. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs by Art Wolfe and John Isaac. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea” (Michael Dirda). With Matthiessen’s bookplate to the pastedown. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photographs by Art Wolfe. Jacket design by Charles Fuhrman.