At Play in the Fields of the Lord Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster? release year: 1991 star(s):Aidan Quinn
Der wohl vergebliche Kampf brasilianischer Indianer um «ihr» LandNZZ Online, SwitzerlandAnders als in all den Produktionen aus den achtziger Jahren, Herzogs «Fitzcarraldo», Boormans «The Emerald Forest», Joffés «The Mission», etwas später Babencos «At Play in the Fields of the Lord», die die südamerikanische «Indianerfrage» zumeist
How a 1988 cocaine bust in Pinellas County brought down Jungle MikeTampabay.com, FLTo Bailey, the western Amazon that Mike Tsalickis called home looked less like a spread in True than the motley, vaguely hallucinogenic world of missionaries and gunrunners Peter Matthiessen drew in his novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord.
Film captures writer Peter Matthiessen's adventurous lifePittsburgh Post Gazette, PAIn the process he became co-founder of the Paris Review; author of some 30 books (including "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," "The Snow Leopard" and "Shadow Country"); the only person to win two National Book Awards for fiction and nonfiction;
Author Peter Matthiessen to speak in BozemanWest Yellowstone News, MTMatthiessen, 81, is a naturalist and conservationist who has published more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, including "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" and "Far Tortuga." In November 2008, he received a National Book Award for "Shadow
Pope, extra ribbed Benedict says condoms make AIDS worse. God San Francisco Chronicle, USAThere are some lovely people at play in the fields of the lord, even if that lord is a bit of a domineering, patriarchal megalomaniac who's never really satisfied. There is other good news: Some bishops already operate in open defiance of the Vatican's
National Book Award winner to speak April 23 in BozemanThe Bozeman Daily Chronicle, MTMatthiessen, 81, is a naturalist and conservationist who has published more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, including "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" and "Far Tortuga." Matthiessen won his first National Book Award 30 years ago for "The
His 1965 "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" was nominated for a National Book Award and was made into a movie in 1991. (Many of his nonfiction stories have
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