The Snow Leopard (Picador Books)

by PeterMatthiessen (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1980

  $5.32

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $4.12

  An account of the author's search for the rare snow leopard, travelling on foot from Kathmandu to the remote Crystal Mountain, high in the Himalayas by way of Annapurna. What began as an expedition became, for Mathiessen, a true pilgrimage of the heart. The book won the US National Book Award. Peter Matthiessen s many books include Indian Country , Nine-Headed Dragon River and Men's Lives .

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $11.32

  One September, the writer and explorer Peter Matthiessen set out with field biologist George Schaller to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the bharal, but also hoped to see the snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical. The Snow Leopard is not only an exquisite book of natural history but an extraordinary account of an inner journey; a 'true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart'.