Peter Matthiessen - The Snow Leopard

Written by Peter Matthiessen. Themes include Biography & Autobiography, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Literary Figures, Science & Technology, Adventurers & Explorers.

Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas.

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

'A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among' Paul Theroux


'A delight' i Paper

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