Not Toobage

Keith Davis kbob42 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 15:26:41 CST 2015


Yes, I believe it was a blurb for Far Tortuga, but he praised Mr. Mathiessen's work in general.

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> On Dec 9, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Where did P speak of Peter M.? Far Tortuga quote? maybe I remember?
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If anyone can peel their eyeballs off of the Toob...;-)
>> 
>> Our Mr. P spoke, or wrote, very highly of Peter Mathiessen, and it's easy to
>> see why. I've just finished Book One of Shadow Country, and I highly
>> recommend it. Shadow Country is a fictional account of the Florida frontier
>> in the early 1900's, and is his own reworking of three books which had been
>> published separately at the request or demand of his publishers.
>> 
>> Earlier this year, I read his In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, which is a
>> non-fiction treatment of the story of Leonard Peltier and the American
>> Indian Movement. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. It is also
>> excellent.
>> 
>> --
>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>> 
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