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...Like many beautiful things, however, cranes are delicate?and they are dying. In Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes (North Point Press; 350 pages), nature writer and novelist Peter Matthiessen records his encounters with each of the 15 species of crane, a series of journeys that takes him through Asia, Australia, Africa and North America. He arrives each time in the wake of vanishing populations like a policeman reaching a murder scene too late. The cranes' struggles in their eroding habitats are depressingly familiar but Matthiessen and his fellow "craniacs" remain undaunted. His book, like his life, is a tribute...
...April 1, 1950, Matthiessen jumped from the 12th story of a Boston hotel...
...oldest possession on display was a 17th-century edition of Sir Thomas North’s 1579 translation of Plutarch’s Lives given to Matthiessen...
After receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1927, Matthiessen became the first senior tutor of Eliot House and the chair of the board of tutors in history and literature. In 1942, he joined the Faculty as a full professor...
...letter to Matthiessen from T. S. Eliot, Class of 1910, is a reply to a dinner invitation. Matthiessen knew Eliot when he was Norton professor of poetry—and an Eliot House resident—in 1932-3 and in 1935 Matthiessen wrote the first critical book on Eliot...