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Media Fiction Genre Travel Media National Book Award Peter Matthiessen - The Snow Leopard

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When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart".

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Authors	Peter Matthiessen
Fiction Genre	Nature • Travel
Fiction Subgenre	• • • •
Awards	1979 National Book Award

Professional Reviews

Professional Reviews

<b>Hoagland, Edward, <i>New York Times Book Review</i>:</b> "Largely gone are the dry summaries, the highflown and impersonal plural nouns that have deadened many chapters of Mr. Matthiessen's previous books. A shard of rose quartz, the spores of a cinnamon fern, a companionable mound of pony dung, a dog barking at his pale tent in the moonlight, all may excite him as if this were his first--or at least last--day on earth. On the other hand, except for two or three poignant references toward the end, the interpolations concerning his wife seem not so much insincere as jimmied unnaturally into his diary. Though he must indeed have thought of her with grief and guilt under the circumstances, from falsity of placement and carelessness they do not fit."

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Book Editions

PaperbackReprint338June 01, 1996Penguin Group USA8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.5 lbs.9780140255089

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