The Snow Leopard
Book formats
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Hardcover No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Peter Matthiessen
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Language
- english
- Release date
- November 5, 2020
- ISBN
- 978-1-78487-684-5
- GTIN
- 9781784876845
- Weight, g
- 407
About
'A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among' Paul Theroux
'A delight' i Paper
This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas. In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it was also a 'journey of the heart' — amongst the beauty and indifference of the mountains Matthiessen was searching for solace. He was also searching for a glimpse of a snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be almost mythical.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD MABEY