Blue Meridian

{{Short description|1971 non-fiction book by Peter Matthiessen}}

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| name = Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark

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| author = Peter Matthiessen

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| subject = Great white sharks

| genre = Nature

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| publisher = Random House

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| pub_date = January 1, 1971

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| pages = 204

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Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark is a 1971 non-fiction nature book by the American author Peter Matthiessen. He writes of a 17-month expedition he undertook with Peter Gimbel to photograph great whites underwater. The book recounts, then, the production of the documentary Blue Water, White Death.https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/23/home/matthiessen-meridian.html NYT{{Cite web |date=2014-04-06 |title=Peter Matthiessen obituary |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/06/peter-matthiessen |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}