Robert Gardner and Peter Matthiessen in Conversation

July 19, 2014 | 1 book mentioned

The New York Times unearthed footage from a 1996 interview with Robert Gardner and Peter Matthiessen. The pair discuss a trip they took to New Guinea in the 60s, which “resulted in Gardner’s film Dead Birds and Matthiessen’s book Under the Mountain Wall.”

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