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THE SNOW LEOPARD
by PETER MATTHIESSEN
‘A beautiful book, and worthy of those mountains he is among”,
PAUL THEROUX
Across the most awesome mountains on earth, Peter Matthiessen
went in search of the rare snow leopard, His dangerous trip
became a pilgrimage, a luminous journey of the heart,
‘A beautiful, magnificent book – it gives off at once what I take to
be the resonance of a classic. It is one of the most wonderful
accounts I know of journeying in our time’
W.S. MERWIN
‘Radiant, , . we have a veritable yeti here – somebody who on his
own ground is leaving marks no one else could make’
EDWARD HOAGLAND/NEW YORK TIMES
‘A magical book: a kind of lunar paradigm and map of the sacred
… the book has transcended the usual limits of language’
JIM HARRISON/THE NATION
‘The naturalist, the spiritual apprentice and the writer converge
simply and dramatically’
SATURDAY REVIEW
‘An enchantment, an extraordinarily rich book … powerful in
its descriptions and arresting in its spiritual content’
HORIZON
In good preloved condition.
301+ pages