Oomingmak: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea

by Peter Matthiessen

85 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1967

About the author

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.