Trade paperback, glossy black wrappers, a color photo of snowy mountains on front, praise on back wrapper from W.S. Merwin, Jim Harrison. (Winner of National Book Award) 338 lightly browned pages, some maps in early pages. Light wear to most edges, nick to long front edge near tip, very slight wear to spine corners. Good.

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Title

The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics)

Publisher

Penguin Book

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0140255087

ISBN 13

9780140255089

Binding

Trade Paperback

Edition

First Thus

Condition

Good

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Synopsis

An account of the author's two-hundred-fifty-mile journey, on foot, from Kathmandu, Nepal, to the Crystal Mountain, in Tibet, in search of the Himalayan blue sheep, the rare snow leopard, and distances of the spirit

About the Author

Peter Matthiessen is 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 have resulted in many fine works of non-fiction, among them Birds of Heaven, The Cloud Forest and The Tree where Man was Born. In November 2008, at age 81, he received his second National Book Award for Shadow Country, an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s.

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