The Snow Leopard - Hardcover

Matthiessen, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784876844 ISBN 13: 9781784876845

Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2020

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'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

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Peter Matthiessen was a naturalist, explorer and writer. His works of fiction include At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga and the acclaimed 'Watson Trilogy'. His explorations resulted in many fine works of non-fiction, among them The Snow Leopard, The Cloud Forest and The Tree where Man was Born. He died in 2014, aged 86.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1784876844
• ISBN 13: 9781784876845
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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