"Peter had started seeing a woman in Reno named Lisa Barclay Bigelow, a great beauty (she would model on the covers of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar) who’d been in Nevada to secure a divorce of her own. Lisa lived in New York, and on November 19, Peter took her and his two children to the Coney Island aquarium, which had recently installed an Amazon River scene complete with piranhas and live tropical birds. Along the way, they all stopped at Pier B in Red Hook to examine the MV Venimos, which would soon ferry Peter to the genuine Amazon." - From Lance Richardson’s biography True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Pantheon):