Far Tortuga
1975
First Published
3.91
Average Rating
416
Number of Pages
An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." — Newsweek
Avg Rating
3.91
Number of Ratings
1,261
5 STARS
34%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Peter Matthiessen
Author · 32 books
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 and 1980) and fiction (Shadow Country, in 2008). A co-founder of The Paris Review and a world-renowned naturalist, explorer and activist, he died in April 2014.
